I just wanna be naked all day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ-hY0mb_ws
My story "The Drive-In Movie" has been accepted for publication by Siren's Call Magazine. Very proud of this one, truthfully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR11zIjxO_wU72arDb_MVCBezJevIMUzlKk7uS51hIkmYBUzusejwmxVgL0&v=b5iI_LcPVRg&feature=youtu.be
Here is a link to my new song "The Painted Geek." @thepaintedgeek
She Has Gone Away by Michael S. Walker (copyright 2021)
She has gone away
Ascended last night into
Porphyritic clouds...
Streets we walked down
Are smaller now
And denuded of leaves.
There are
Weeds of words
In her garden
A rust of words
In her fountain.
I am surrounded by things
She left behind
A scrunchy
Her Machiavelli
A frilly sock...
These things have kidnapped...
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“Henry!”
I wake up with a start not knowing for an instant where the hell I am, what night it is. I was having a vivid dream about Sara, my love Sara, dancing in front of me, her long red hair moving back and forth back and forth whipping her cheeks like flames caught by some slow-motion camera, her eyes pools of untempered devotion. Once-upon-a-time,...
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Lessons
Michael S. Walker (copyright 2021)
Cut firewood
Feed it to the fire
Learn the ways
Of work and desire
Your little heart
Is tougher
Than your brain
You’ll figure this out
In time
So, at dusk that night, about fifty of us were herded into vehicles—mostly horse-drawn carts stolen from farms. But there were a few Renault taxis as well. I found myself crammed into one of the latter. And that—like being away from Narbonne—was another novelty. I had never been in a motorized vehicle before. But I had little time to think about it. I was on...
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