Tag: vampire bat

• Vampire Bat

  My student grabs his reading book off the desk and begins folding and creasing the title page in on itself as if to say he’s shutting down and refusing to talk about it, when it’s expected he follows along with the rest of his class. I can’t tell you how many people, children and adults […]

  Chris Russell

  December 16, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Animal poems, book, bread, butter, desk, Paraprofessional poems, phonebook, skin, vampire bat

• Desmodus Rotundas

  Thinking this life sucks the joy out of me the way a vampire bat sucks the blood out of a sleeping cow, I’m reminded of the leech that once attached itself to my leg and clung to me for hours before I felt an itch and realized it was slowly drinking me the way a […]

  Chris Russell

  December 3, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Animal poems, binder, blood, Childhood poems, chocolate milk, cow, Illness/mental health poems, leech, Paraprofessional poems, vampire bat