Tag: shadows

• Enlightenment

  I tried to write myself into enlightenment the way a psychiatrist can sometimes teach you to recondition that brain slug in the skull to use its own poison as a defense, but only so you can end up turning language into shadows and light so easily it becomes too automatic to drop or slip over […]

  Chris Russell

  October 17, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Achilles tendon, Autobiographical poems, bib, calve, chicken, coffee grounds, crutch, curb, enlightenment, gear, light, meditation poems, palm tree, poison, shadows, skull, slug, storm, Subaru, trash

• Shadows

  The one time I wrote a love poem it was to a dead man who, when he was alive, had taught me how to see behind my own words for shadows, shadows, which, more often than not, contained stories I was ashamed to tell myself, but really wanted to hear, since some more unconscious part […]

  Chris Russell

  August 29, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Love poems, page, shadows, words, writer’s block poems