Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine Volume 51

Page 64

FACADES

///Emily Sanders Supple pearl and silk strewn across valleys of skin Through billowing purple smoke and scattered erections Soft skin dances in the spotlight of 100 gazes Eyes emulate desire, casting harsh fragments of grey light that Broke apart her velvet mask which oozed darkness of Lost hope and melancholy dreams It pooled at the feet of a man who didn’t notice the stickiness of sadness Which clung to the bottom of his boots That his wife asked him to take off before he entered the living room because “honestly, dear” But he did notice the creamy pallor of lust The titillating, taunting, intoxicating aura of Affection that must be hidden under the folds and ruffles of eroticism He surely noticed the drop of silk To reveal the niches and corners of her body Corridors and secret doors without locks His eyes devour her silhouetted form His hands grasp at the ghost that dances with her demons His body throbs and pulsates with her precise movements His cold skin yearns for a warm, liquid body Enveloped in the natural desire to feel something And bury himself in lust that didn’t belong to him The extension of his widened pupils explores her body, stumbling around Full breasts his wife didn’t have and a pussy that dripped honey and Promises of emptiness And when her vacant eyes met his in languid hesitation Both pairs of eyes silently beg for redemption and forgiveness and They realize they have nothing to offer one another The only thing they had in common Was the grainy, white and black memory Of some melancholy dreams 60 SANSKRIT


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BEFORE YOU /// Nia Johnson

23min
pages 110-125

AWKWARD MOMENT ///Paul Watsky

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page 89

UGH /// Stephen A. Geller

10min
pages 90-95

LAST TRAIL /// Ellen Lager

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TO A FLIGHT OF FANCY /// Valerie Griggs

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EDGE OF DISMANTLING /// Bonnie Larson Staiger

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MY SILENCED SPRING /// Mary Louise Kiernan

1min
page 67

FACADES /// Emily Sanders

1min
page 64

ONE IN ALL, WE’RE ALL THE SAME /// Danielle Walden

1min
pages 62-63

SPRITES /// Paul Hundt

4min
pages 60-61

TO WIDEN THE SIDEWALK /// Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

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MOZART PLAYS BILLIARDS /// Katharine Gregg

1min
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THE DAY STALIN DIED /// Katharine Gregg

2min
page 59

DONUT JIM /// Lillian McKenzie

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THE DEVIL’S RADIO /// Beth Escott Newcomer

10min
pages 41-46

SEX EDUCATION/// Shawna Ervin

2min
page 26

MESSAGE TO ONE WOODED ACRE /// Iris Litt

1min
page 22

LITERARY-ARTS

1min
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THE SPECTATOR OF CALAMITIES /// Frank Richards

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BLUE SWEATER MEMORIES /// Claire Scott

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ODE: IF I WROTE LUNCH POEMS /// Saramanda Swigart

1min
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MESSAGE /// Gale Acuff

1min
page 35

CERBERUS; NOEVIL/// Sheree Davidson

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