Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? I first heard this quote in a song about ten years ago and it has stuck to my brain like glue ever since. “if a tree don’t fall on me, I’ll live till I die” I live by this quote for…
Author: Raymond A Stanton
Do you ever wonder what lives here?
I do a lot of hiking and woods walking in Indiana and Michigan. Sometimes I’m looking up at the sky, fascinated by how vast it is and colorful. Most of the time I’m looking in places most don’t think about as they pass by. Those small crevices under roots and decaying logs. At a hole…
I ain’t no cowboy
I once killed a spider with a 2×4 I knew then it was time to go home Stuck in dried out flat land You could shoot the pecker off a hummingbird out there Running two AC’s on high trying to sleep when it’s 110° I know where they got the idea for giant bug movies…
Published poems
My first-ever published poems are now live. https://www.bullshitlit.com/post/five-poems-by-raymond-stanton
The Beaver
With a slap of the water, ripples shimmer in the moonlight. “Go away, beaver, this is our river,” shouts he. The beaver calmly floats to the shoreline and takes a seat in the grass next to the two fellows sitting dazed by the river. “It’s not your river, nor is it mine,” the beaver says….
Dreary Day
Gray clouds hovering Cold damp trees Wind stirs Nothing moves in the shadows Half froze ponds sit idol Calm Rage within the vessel Crunchy field’s of decay Looming memory Wet logs Nowhere to be still Embrace The suck Among us.
Slug Words 