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Because My Name Is Not Stephen King
You would assume
if I scriven -'I stood
awash in the midday sun,
all my shadows tucked within,
my heart, bleeding,
squeezed in my right fist,
my eyes gone, black and unblinking.'
that those words chisel a metaphor.
Sometimes they are not so.
I have to crawl inside another womb
and brave another childhood
until I grow up, stand here again.
About the Author: The author of 'Postmarked Quarantine' has eight books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of 'Words Surfacing’. His works have been translated into twelve languages, published across the globe.
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