SHADOWS

BY PHILIP THORNTON

The NEAR and FAR cards were printed by Cumbersome Multiples Press on a 1928 Chandler & Price letterpress using antique wooden type. PonyXpress writers wrote a response to the word on the cover. The cards were passed to the next writers and they used the prompt to write on the back.

The shadow of these bars on the windows
make me think
So much of my life was a mistake.
So many times thriving on the pain.
So many times it was all insane.
These shadows taunt me.
Just like the lights slipping by on that
Street on the other side of the gate.
My life was such a mistake.
Too many times I watched it all turn to ashes.
Too many times my brain went insane.
So many shadows burned into faded
Memories
Now the shadow of bars on these
Window panes
Bring me a colder kind of pain. | PT