Vol : Writing

PASSING THROUGH

PASSING THROUGH

A Poem by Vol


Sometimes I can move with the music, sometimes not. These scars on my knees and the palms of my hands bear witness to a path littered ..
e=mc2

e=mc2

A Poem by Vol


Where was I before I was here? This identity, This personality? This consciousness? How did I coalesce? Am I just a bunch of ne..
PAPA

PAPA

A Poem by Vol


I like to walk in the woods without paths or trails. You see, I follow Papa. That old man would cut a walking stick when he’d tak..
PALETTE

PALETTE

A Poem by Vol


Someone’s watching all the time, you know? I’m not talking about the cameras, omnipresent, becoming omniscient; looking d..
NEEDLES

NEEDLES

A Poem by Vol


When she needs to talk I can feel it in my stomach where anxiety lives, and anger, and butterflies. It is genetic, I think, he..
P.O.V.

P.O.V.

A Poem by Vol


Momma's yellow table had chrome legs and chairs to match. The whole family ate buttermilk biscuits, fresh eggs and a hundred ..
OXYMORON

OXYMORON

A Poem by Vol


The Idyllic dreams of what once was... when we agreed that right was better than wrong, and knew the difference, when we always aimed hi..
SUCCULENT

SUCCULENT

A Poem by Vol


On the other side of this wall, cold waitswith teeth bared and a sneerwhile I can do nothing to hold it at bay. Erato sleepswith back turned ..
OUT BACK

OUT BACK

A Poem by Vol


There aren’t a thousand people within a hundred square miles of my place on the Llano Estacado. I’m fairly good at li..
OH JESUS

OH JESUS

A Poem by Vol


Her name is Tracy K Smith and when she reads her poetry of didactic imagery, she is soft and sensual as D.H. Lawrence when he leans that..