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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...

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...

Empty Chairs

RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Empty Chairs Two seats for people that should love But are gone Could stare into gray water A gray sky Believed that black and white Never should make gray But...

Lip Balm

RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Lip Balm An ointment tastes of things I’ve lost   Caked on at night By morning an arid cracking of my youth   Fissured salt flats and an alien moon...

Prison

RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Prison   TS told me in my favorite poem, to communicate with Mars, And to report the behavior of the sea monster; You know I can converse with spirits, Because,...