Poetic Madness

Featured Poem



Smoke Signals and Smiles
by Antoinette Swanson
 
Smoke rises
In a straight stream
From her lipstick
Stained cigarette
Smoke signals dance

The night
A humid canopy
Lingers around her
Nocturnal creatures
Chatter and whisper

As she sits
On the gravel
And inhales deeply
With content

Angels watch
With cold cement smiles
Perched atop houses
Of ancestral dwellings

Dawn arrives
Eager to make
Cinders of us all



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