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W.M. Butler
W.M. Butler has been published online at Unshod Quills, Literary Orphans, Far Enough East, and Cease Cows. His work appears in print with HAL Publishing, United Versus, The Filling Station and In Grave Ink.
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my heart is a honky tonk
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good days are always ahead / it’s the old ones / that brake my knuckles / on the dead / the ones that leave / are the ones that linger longest …
on the last day of the rest of our lives
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the skin hunger for you on me / is a slingshot into sunshine / our faces covered to god / our love a blank rhythm / in a cloudy silence / of…
blood in the water
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i shrug off rust there is lust in my blood stream sweet marrow these narrow tomorrows relentless on my joints my figurative speech beaches whales…
brine and mist and fine foam
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when i think of us i think of friction the minutia of / movement etching our corners smooth until there is no blood just the polished response of…
pressure
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kill me please / i won’t tell a soul what you’ve done i won’t let the love come undone / if the measure of price is trust let maggots breed let…
bob ross episode 22: nobody wants agony…
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little circle floater clouds / makes it nice the darker it becomes / the color picks up an excellent sky a sea scape dropping in a little cloud…
white white teeth gold
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beard blue hands cold hibernating bears shrugging ice sheets across my shoulders staggering down switchbacks and trails in the wild places of my…
drip drip drip
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i’m going to get you make you move down low where honey drips make you trip wire tremble alone in the dark where no one can hear how you speak but…
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From Poems for the Burning West
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“Like the Mom in The Road?” // fire woods fire brush fire towns / fire summer fire fall fire spring fire winter / suck breath / drought heat…
Sally
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yes the heart will stop beating / maybe it’s best to be a star / shining long after its own death / named and noted—light studied / yes the…
Trash Can
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I’m mean and lean, // sullen cream cheese / cake on the counter. I baked. . I’m hot. I’m sweet. / I’m the wrong thing to do. That doesn’t stop you....
To Be Healed
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sometimes, under the rain is light / no common cloud can defeat / // we drink beer with the old boys / while deer shift gears / // in the…
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