Tag: stone

• Stone

  When I think about what it would be like to finally find that face under the mask and never have to wear another one, I feel happy. Except that’s not the kind of me I want to be. The kind of me I want to be can be like water so, no matter what I […]

  Chris Russell

  October 17, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Autobiographical poems, banks, hair, Illness/mental health poems, mask, pot, rockslide, roots, stone, water

• Plane

  The remote control plane was starting to spin out of control. I pulled back on the joystick and it landed in the neighbor’s birdbath. My neighbor came out of his house and stood in the yard with his hands on his hips. “What am I going to say? He said. He put his hands in […]

  Chris Russell

  October 14, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  baseball bat, birdbath, chicken, flame thrower, grill, joystick, mail slot, plane, Prose poems, rock garden, stone, tulips, veggie burgers

• Tomb

  I’d like to get rid of this trauma that I have, that pulls me under some nights, tightens me up and causes me to reach for breath like someone who’s stayed underwater for too long. Who wants to be around a guy like that? says a voice inside me, brushing a worry into me like […]

  Chris Russell

  July 13, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Autobiographical poems, Childhood poems, crate, dark room, golden egg, Illness/mental health poems, mirror, mobile home, stone, tomb