“Such is a community of inviolable immunity, protected from tampering or harpooning mutiny. Every better thinker’s impulse to shrink us (at the shoreline from our lifeblood’s deep pulse) uses disparaging scrutiny to sink us.” CommunityPoetBoatProtectedScrutinyMutinyRomanticsWhitmanSchoonerCaptain My CaptainDeep PulseSink UsTitle PoemWhitmanesque Author:Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking
“I wonder what became of you, your Johnny Rotten skin, no Emerald City eyes. You'd have been a beauty if you let inferiority steam your glasses with its candor, sans laughter.” HopeBeautyPoetFar AwayLong AgoInferiorityCandorEditorSmugJohnny RottenEmerald City Author:Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking