Joshua Lean : Writing

Optophobia.

Optophobia.

A Poem by Joshua Lean


There were many things we did not want our eyes to know, because we did not trust them.We did not believe in crying mothers, leaving lovers, dead ends..
Ugly.

Ugly.

A Poem by Joshua Lean


I was born ugly.Not the kind of Ugliness that makes my mother turn away in revulsion.But the Ugliness that makes her stare intently,taking in every ro..
A Litany of Requisitions.

A Litany of Requisitions.

A Poem by Joshua Lean


I never knew that I would own the world.The dancing ire of the wind.The ground under my feet and the sound of flapping wings.They came to me as if bea..
Letter to A Little Killer

Letter to A Little Killer

A Poem by Joshua Lean


For every child soldier in every corner, whether you hold a gun or not, in whatever way you are being used or afflicted, I fight for you.
Unrequited Love.

Unrequited Love.

A Poem by Joshua Lean


I saw scribbling on black walls, love poems, dedicated to boys she did not know and boys that were not me. I surveyed this new terra-firma, the constr..
Songs for Newtown

Songs for Newtown

A Poem by Joshua Lean


To be whispered to the sleeping backs of loud toddlers and the giant eyes of the children that we were. I write this panegyric on th..
The Conductor.

The Conductor.

A Poem by Joshua Lean


Burdened. My ears pick the music of strings,pulled by bleeding fingers. The notes lift me,and I hurtle past a triumvirate of idle clouds. W..
Morella.

Morella.

A Poem by Joshua Lean


Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe.
When The Raisins Ate Nothing.

When The Raisins Ate Nothing.

A Poem by Joshua Lean


Intolerant eyes seep through the cracks in the door;........................Reiterating our thoughts in a million microdots.Broken Bubbled Blisterine ..

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