Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ram
Looking Up
I arrive early – I’m always early. I survey the scene and buy a cup of coffee – the umpteenth cup actually. I choose a table where I can…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Horse
What Real Men Do
“Chris,” my dad began, “there are two things in this world that mean everything to a real man. I’m talking about the ingredients that make real men. Do you…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Horse
Bringing Us Both Back
That summer I was slaving at the record store. Galaxy of Sound, where the stars come out. That advertising slogan is burned in my brain. Every time I recite it,…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Horse
Disorder
She chose a physics major for fun, studied religiously between big party blow outs and a million dates with a million boyfriends, one in a wheelchair. At night she’d get…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Horse
Love: No Choice but To Follow
distracting desire love’s a dream passing at night lingering perfume lingering perfume hints of love’s reality even in our dreams even in our dreams that perfect time of true love…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Horse
Andrea
I suppose you know I was in love with you. All those letters. We were a pair of regular epistolary fiends. That’s why I came back to Madison in ’82….
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Horse
Haiku: Spring to Winter
green buds thrive in spring love shapes our long years falling moving back in time I give you my love hard true high and passionate you held in my arms…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Horse
Haiku
on winter night walks cold gloved hands grasp together barely feeling you
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Highjack
Year of the Horse Writing Contest entry for June. 313 words.
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How I Learned To Write My Name
Year of the Horse entry for June 2014 — 591 words