Writing Archives - Rick Baldwin

When I’m Gone

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When I’m gone, replace me with the moon— its silver dust more tempered, forgiving, steadfast and...

New Year

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Countdown ignored— tucked beneath a stranger’s quilt, like two-for-one toasted loaves from the...

Taking Flight

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I release them. Fledglings pushed from the nest, thin-skinned and chirping. Constantly on guard...

Arid

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Before the rains, I live in your skeleton, pressed beneath the crust of your sinister mask. I...

Death Of The Moon

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Punky Moon was gettin’ married to Reba Anderson and there wuddn’t nobody less happy about that...

First Blush

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The flutter of waking— sapphire butterflies poised to sip the earth’s nectar, its sweetness...

The Specter of Red Dog Road

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[Content Warning: Implied gun violence, death] Up in Harlan, Kentucky, there’s an old backroad...

Exotic Aquatic

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Inside, it swims— this goldfish of light within a translucent bowl, its fragile curve an illusion...

A Hollywood Life Unattained

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[Content Warning: Mild adult situations, drug and alcohol references] Reflecting on the...

New Exploitive Southern Reality Shows On Cable

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[Content Warning: Adult language and situations, drug and alcohol references] Tick Jokes Friday...

Barn

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Gray bones, defiant against the weather of a wavering century, stand proud, propping the relic— a...

Forever Burning Fire

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Life is a forever burning fire— its flames cradle you, a fleeting flicker. Briefly you dance,...

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