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Tonight's Poet Corner: Dusk Walk

Dusk Walk by Belinda Roddie As the coronal mass ejections color crayon pastel hues into the pink and yellow blues of a crystal diamond evening you stop to pluck a wilting ember from a suckling vine and drip the honeysuckle onto the corners of your weeping lips. The dryness of the air is haunting some membrane of your past life, a life where you drank cider under birch trees in a summer sauna, stunned by the parched grass while your son played cricket on the scorched dirt near the playground that rusted from your ample memory lane. And the only cold air comes from your wife's mouth before she coughs into a kerchief speckled with tiny particles of aurora dust that hangs in the night sky and shuts down each street light on your walk home.

Today's OneWord: Belief

"Therefore, it is my belief that God-given rights of this country." "Ahem." Father Jacques arched an eyebrow threateningly at the young girl in the pew. "Is there a problem, Miss Jenny?" "You made an error," Jenny replied. "You said God-given rights." "Yes?" "That's clearly inaccurate. They're Bob-given rights." "Miss Jenny..." "I want Bob to receive credit where credit is due!"