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The Son of My Lonely Father’s Son

RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact The Son of My Lonely Father’s Son My son walks alone on a vast plaza of marble and stone My boy is a slight man among mighty pillars He walks over solid marble...

Cupid’s Arrow: Love Your Heart Month

RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Cupid’s Arrow: Love Your Heart Month “February is American Heart Month,” an exsanguinating man tells me while we’re standing on line in the ER. “You’ve got to...

Ghosts on a Path

RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Ghosts on a Path There was a time when I drove to work or did something more daring like skiing down a mountain, I always saw my parents on either side of...

She Flails

RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact She Flails she jokes we listen   we watch until she flails   until she flops flaccid   a stale spirit seeping permanently into the ether  ...

A Purple Heart

RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact A Purple Heart Sunny, wake up from your coma. Let me oxygenate your purple heart. Sunny, be brave.   I’m leaving the ICU for a few minutes. Just long enough to...

Portal Hypertension: Time Traveling i-Phone

RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Portal Hypertension: Time Traveling i-Phone Just as veins drain from the gut and visceral organs and connect en-route to the liver, I squeeze through my own portal....