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Thomas A. Hiscock – January 2026 *** She’s haunted – burdened by things that won’t change… Sometimes, I switch the meanings of ‘raise’ and ‘raze’ to see what happens to my world… “Hero, how did you forget… Again?” Head in the clouds, I’m yanked from a day-dream – lullabies of somewhere far-away… Concealing a smile,…
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Thomas A. Hiscock, January 2026 *** Granite spills across the low brown tide… Colonial bones, pierced by a thin blued blade, leaking to the sea… Pylons, buried beneath the soft green loam; salt-stained – bruised purple with a limpet rash… Vertebrae rocks, shifting crabs… Blue mussels and teapot clams – dry, spoiled… Sweet decay and…
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Thomas Aidan Hiscock – Mussel Cove, Falmouth, Maine – 2025 *** ghost town caught in the chokehold of our lies, I twisted molten words, every truth hard as iron. candlestick fingers — dripping wax — squeezed deceit from your silver tongue. no warrant needed, I stared down the sky where your absence was painted with…
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Thomas Aidan Hiscock – Mussel Cove, Falmouth, Maine – 2025 *** Deep in the woods, where the hills are lonely and the wind whispers to the moon… Lies a field. The grass is tall, swaying in the breeze – gossiping; chattering; passing secrets… And in this field stands a tree – A hanging tree. From…
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Thomas Aidan Hiscock – Mussel Cove, Falmouth, Maine – 2025 *** Gunner paused – Hanging from his mailbox was a bait bag – just a raggedy, red pouch – nothing more… If it hadn’t been for the full moon and the message, well… He sighed, kissing a cigarette. “Fuck!” He knew the drill… “Pay late…
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Thomas Aidan Hiscock – Mussel Cove, Falmouth, Maine – 2025 *** I woke up tasting blood. Biting my lip, I tried to rally saliva but only managed bile … and a grimace … Oh, fuck me … and more blood. Blood doesn’t taste like … ‘pennies’… Blood tastes like salt and sex … Blood tastes…
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Thomas Aidan Hiscock – Mussel Cove, Falmouth, Maine – 2025 *** Fuck. Here we go again… There! It was barely a whisper, as bashful as that leak in your tire – you know, the one that’s always got you in the driveway – neck bent, knees screaming into the rock as you try to find…
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Thomas Aidan Hiscock – Mussel Cove, Falmouth, Maine – 2025 *** In the waning days of May, as the world burned with hidden fire – Anna sat on the beach, digging her feet in the sand. Waves caressed her ankles as plovers scurried by, dancing in the surf. Anna gazed at the water, at the…
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