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Book Review – Warflower by Robert Stark
Warflower by Robert Stark The Amazon link I read this book both on my eReader and again in paperback. This is an unsolicited review. The Review: Robert Stark’s book is the best book I’ve read so far this year. While I don’t typically read… Continue Reading “Book Review – Warflower by Robert Stark”
Wild Untamable Moments
In a world of sticks and stones, wet and cold, wild, untamable, unreachable yet available, always ready, teachable moments, A strand of bull kelp lies helpless on the sand, a gull’s stern look, thirty-seven King Salmon circling in the fish wheel, we release twenty-five… Continue Reading “Wild Untamable Moments”
Available Now – The Woman With Three Elbows by Rachael Ikins
Raw Earth Ink is proud to present Rachael Ikins’ newest book, The Woman With Three Elbows. Misdiagnosed for over a decade with multiple mental illnesses and prescribed dozens of pharmaceuticals, artist and author Rachael Ikins’ latest book delivers powerful prose, poetry, and art created… Continue Reading “Available Now – The Woman With Three Elbows by Rachael Ikins”
Available Now – Coming of Rage by Ray Van Horn, Jr.
Raw Earth Ink is proud to present Ray Van Horn, Jr.’s new book, Coming of Rage. “Coming of Rage and six other short stories reflect the human spirit and learning how to rise up and meet adversity. To stand face-to-face with it, then overcome.… Continue Reading “Available Now – Coming of Rage by Ray Van Horn, Jr.”
Red White and Blues
would have been, in days past, that the arguments and pain and hurtful words would have thrown me into a spiral. envisioning red ribbons across pale flesh and splashes of life (precious) dripping onto bathroom tiles. forget the sharp blade, I’d reach for the… Continue Reading “Red White and Blues”
Just a Dog Named Ripple
Ripple was the type of dog you don’t easily forget. She had showed up one early-summer morning through my back gate and right on to my back porch as if she’d always lived here. I was sitting at the dining table, drinking my first… Continue Reading “Just a Dog Named Ripple”
White Spaces
it hurts like claws digging inthe betrayalthe wickednessvicious claws tearing, grippingnever letting go it wasn’t just the wordsit was what lay between the wordslies lies lies!and I never saw it comingnever thought it possible how you held my heart in the one handand her… Continue Reading “White Spaces”
Say What You Will
you see what you wantyou say I’m a star, blue and distantmaybe you’re not entirely wrongI may be distantbut the cold shoulder isn’t without reasonthe closer I draw inyour gravity, as such, is a magnetI’m drowningor at leastI would beif not for the cold… Continue Reading “Say What You Will”
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