Donald Pasmore

Drinking the Kool-Aid You Live Inside

a red altar        idols burning
late night         letters poems of children
dashed on the concrete
so I hear the wet thwack
now skin         to skin is cold
stone to place a gold portrait
that takes my ability to poetize
myself             into other beds’ men
this image of you is altered as I kneel
sunlight shines on my face     within

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Donald Pasmore is a sophomore English major at Salisbury University who has been published in The Scarab Literary Magazine. He grew up in Delaware and aspires to earn a PhD and become a college professor. His other interests include philosophy, tabletop games and amateur woodworking.