escarp

escarp is a selective, twitter-based review of brief poetry and prose. Visit for guidelines.

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old dog/
her ailing heart beats/
against my leg/
@witnwords1

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most nights, the moonlight/
outlines all the shadows scattered outside,/
even those within/
@fcmwrite

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The ladies with feather tails glide up the escalator over Las Vegas Boulevard. They talk shop, feathers dusty and nylons clean. @anikeaten

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darkness will go/
where the light/
refuses/
@bobcarlton3

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her shadow forms depressions/
at the bottom of the door/
all along our baseboards/
the floor grows black/
as she turns on the dark/

@fcmwrite

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Grief is rotting fruit but you are starving/
salt-bitter skin/
and inside/
dry seeds/

@austinsively

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Mosquitoes land on my chest. Dry for months. But little legs, mouths, search for blood. @_RobinJohnson

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They left the parking lot: she to another man, he to an empty condo. Their kiss lasted hours: her silence after, much longer. @Alex_Z_Salinas

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Flames reflect in my wine glass, alive and rhythmic. Above the fireplace, you sit. Still. Quiet. Are you warm? @_RobinJohnson

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He took an old pizza box to a place where the trees couldn't tell him anything and wrote, "Recycle" in fresh, local urine. @haunted4always

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Pencils scratch in circles,/ convert standardized tests to waveform,/ but Helen's hair silently/ grazes my desk. @fcmwrite

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It's rain/and the pollen's beat/down, put to bed/for the night/now's your chance/for so long/you've been the one/washed out @NoahRenn

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The hawk sees through the speed of light,/
flies my garden birds to heaven on steel wings./
@JoyAnneODonnell

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Apiary's ransacked, almond trees won't get pollinated. Creaky creased beekeeper putters past hives, wondering how much he has left. @nwi_jsp

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Despite her distant tinny voice in the luminous clamshell phone booth, and the pounding surf, he missed her. @JISimpson

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Lonely asteroid seeks caring planet to orbit. Promises regular meteor shows, added features to eclipses and no GPS disturbances. @RxHemmell

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DEMISE/
I will not die well. Bidden, cars will crash into cars, an orchestrated wall of steel and, well, my death./
@ParticleFiction

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I walk in morning's dark/
Before moonset and sunrise/
No surfers, one fisherman/
on the pier, no waiting/
for cars at the light.
@madeline40

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No Man is an Island/
Or a mountain/
A tree or a forest//

He's just a Popsicle/
Melting fast or slow//

But always melting./
@johnguzlowski

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It's the first day of bear tickling season. Game wardens prowl the forest, issuing citations for not saying "coochie coo." @CalebEchterling