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Andrew Bambrick

Andrew Bambrick
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This poem is dedicated to my vanished village and its forgotten customs: the unbreakable bond. Knock on Pine Somber men wearing black Armbands sit up front. Women in...
Slow Start Thin white streaks cut across the black sky, Gradually plum and rose clouds appear. The golden dawn shines. THis is the retiree's alarm clock. It's movement time. Bits...
Editor's note: May is Mental Health Month. Catching Shadows Try catching shadows a child's game. Thrilling and exhausting. Impossible to outrun our shadows. Their appearance and disappearance A bit scary. They...
Changing Portable Tools Lift on high the portable idol, Our sacred co-traveler, the iPhone. Idol entry gained By a tap, slide, access code. The invisible becomes visible. Seduction guaranteed. Distraction expected. Life...
The Braided Bread The braided bread Sustained us across the sea And kept the stories of our old ways alive. This Christmas Eve We gather and knead The hopes, promises...
Pandora's Jar The signal given. Midterm hostilities commence. Plagues flutter and descend, Rising from the open Pandora's jar. Civility is the first to leave. Envy, spite and revenge follow. Each plague...
Salt Lick Pleasures The salt lick is a deer's pleasure. With head bobbing in mindless repetition They continue until satiety. Opioid heads bobbing in mindless repetition Continue without satiety. Narcan...
Blood Bath Within the coming months an avalanche of "pick me" Political ads will fill the digital world. Parties and candidates will equate passion with truth. In heated...
"Buy Me" ads activate our susceptible genes. Happy talk merchants are anxious To furnish us with products Designed to break the chains Of our discomfort and pain. From the...
"D" Day Cycle More prolific than dust bunnies Under the bed. Items once memory filled Now face ejection. Parting with them inevitable. Final touching and farewells Necessary for a ritual release. Curb...