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Loretta

Colleen Rennison

Colleen Rennison is a singer, songwriter, and actress. She’s worked in films with Bruce Willis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Minnie Driver, Tom Arnold, Rachael Leigh Cook, Kathleen Turner, Mila Kunis, and many more. None of this I knew when I first heard her voice. A voice that is simply stunning. I stumbled across Colleen on YouTube. Her band “No Sinner” was under recommendations. My first thought was, what a cool name. I found out later it’s her last name “Rennison” spelled backwards. I clicked the...

Behind The Axe

My father
Gave me my first axe
When I was 8 years of age
39 years later
It’s my go to tool
I’ve honed my skills behind the axe
And
Honed its blade!!!
Its weight
Its length
Its handle
Which soaks in my sweat
And
Sometimes my blood
Becomes a part of me
And me of it!!!
A symphony of
Cutting, slicing, and chopping
Me, the conductor
It, the instrument
The Axe and Cutting Mattock
Have been in my hands
My father’s hands
His father’s hands
His father’s, father’s hands
So on and so forth
All the way back to Ireland, Scotla...

Open Letter to Brandon Graham

Time slips by or maybe I’m slipping as time goes by me? Not every day is a drag But it seems the ones That involve passing by the TV When the news is on Can really bring me down I’d much rather walk outside Stroll down the path with my friends of the woods Like a raccoon named Sugar She’s so large So big I believe from Eating out of the ice cream store’s dumpster Down the street from my home She waddles from the weeds and peers at me with Dark curious eyes Then slowly makes her wa...

Brianna Belladonna

Brody Dalle

Riverview

Between Belbedere and ClyedThe last days of his youthWere coming to an endHe was born into a world of hard labor The plow, the axe, and the crosscut sawWere the tools by which His family carved out a livingThey migrated whereverThe next income could be made FromThe North Florida farmlands of HilliardTo the snake-infested waterwaysOf the Okefenokee SwampCutting timber and growing cropsWere their way of life YetLife was also livedOn the mean streets of North JacksonvilleRiverview Was where you...

Harry Crews 9/10/10

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