Tag: shadow

• Hammers

  I think it’s atonement with your father if you’re trying to find a little of yourself in his shadow and finding some positive way to make use of that darkness. I’m reminded of how my father and I wished we were both hammered into our little psychodrama of masculinity, it was like we were dreaming […]

  Chris Russell

  October 17, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Animal poems, Autobiographical poems, Childhood poems, Father/Son poems, flying squirrel, hammers, house, Illness/mental health poems, nails, pitchfork, shadow, war poems

• Deer

  I used to walk out into this field and hide behind a fallen tree where I’d watch the deer lounge in the tall grass, and I’m thinking this time alone with them made me start to think more like a deer than a human. I guess from far enough away we all throw specks of […]

  Chris Russell

  October 16, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Animal poems, Autobiographical poems, Buddha, deer, field, Food poems, grass, icicle, Illness/mental health poems, light, loose change, meditation poems, satellite dish, shadow, sky, story, tree