Short Stories

Oleh thepoetshere

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My attention span is small, so are these "stories". Lebih Banyak

Peaches
Mexico
Great Grandpa Joe
Devon
The Boy with the Seaglass Heart
Deer
Swim
The Lean In
Sleeping In
On the Eve of July Fourth
Moving
New House
Time
Community
Almost the Ocean
Leave
It's My Name
The End of the End of the End of the End...
A Wintery Day
Maid of Honor Speech?

Street Lamp

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Oleh thepoetshere

The night air was intoxicating to my seven year old self. I would take some thick novel and set to work on it in the dead of night. Reading by the light of a street lamp so that my Mom wouldn't catch me still reading at two in the morning.
I remember how the screen would catch the gold of the lamp spilling pools of molten lava across my bedroom floor. It was my street lamp, and the thick yellow light it cast was mine too. It was hazy at midnight glowing in the same caramel chrome against a dark chocolate sky.
I knew I needed to sleep when the lonely sound of the train whistled softly to me across my town. Three in the morning every day it would signal that the time for adventures across the sea would have to wait another day. I would slip off and dream of jungles with street lamps scattered around the lions.

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