Cerebral Contents:

Update for 05.05.08:

Disintegration by Don Hucks

Five Feet and Building by Joel Van Noord

Grocery Aisle by Richard Lighthouse

Cross the Road by Ashok Niyogi

04.29.08:

Lookalikes by Phil Doran

Dinner by Brandi Wells

The Modern Covenant by Daniel E. Wilcox

Death by Onions by Michael Frissore

04.21.08:

Future's Children by Kimberly Raiser

Identity Theft by George Anderson

The Datists by Adam Engel

A Great Deal of Money by Justin Hyde

04.14.08:

Mr. Papaya and Dale by Eric Suhem

California by Caroline Imreibe

Aftermath of Vehement Argument #1,068 by Cynthia Ruth Lewis

Trip-Hammer Vitality by Lisa Nickerson

04.07.08:

The Florence of Basel, or Why Readers of Nietzsche Need to Read Burckhardt by Jeff Crouch

Slideshow by Miles J. Bell

Friends of the Poet by Sean C. Bowen

Picture Perfect by Leah Baldwin

03.24.08:

The Streak by Jeremy Hendrix

Grab Your Butts by Emme Hor

Far Away by Ashok Niyogi

Staring Down a White-Tailed Doe by Aleathia Drehmer

03.17.08:

The Hairbrush by Vernard Kennedy

Dog Days of Winter by Niall Berkeley

Poem From My Grave by Michael Lee Johnson

Mashed Potatoes and Hamburgers by Matt Finney

03.10.08:

Hard Work by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Jetty Cake Pigs by J.D. Nelson

I'm Quiet in Bed by Moctezuma Johnson

Tequila Shakes by Richard Lighthouse

Picture Perfect

by Leah Baldwin

The bruised ribs couldn’t be seen through the white gown...
Love’s grasp that strangled no matter how she twisted and turned...
escape fruitless...
Powerless, fearful... she walked... held in place firmly by pride,
self-loathing and the ideology of Love.
Longing inter-tangled with pain

Her train disguised her limp... her tears would be seen as joy...
Memories flashed across her impeccably made face...
hurt... fear... palpable... tangible... hidden by her veil...
A Pastor in the distance looking at her slow approach...
Her captor, her lover, her pain smiling snidely at the pastor’s side...
Love lost... found... never there... so afraid... and yet...
Picture perfect.

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Leah Baldwin is a Single Black Female just trying to get by in this thing we affectionately call life.

posted 04.07.08.

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