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 | Michael Lee JohnsonMichael Lee Johnson is a freelance writer and poet, who has had over 240 poems published in over 110 journals and online publications. He is a member of Poets & Writers, Inc and Directory of American Poets & Fictions Writers: pw.org/directory. He has been published in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Nigeria, India, and the United Kingdom. The Lost American is about one man’s journey into exile over the Vietnam War many years ago, his struggle, his survival, his road to recovery and strength manifesting itself through his prose and poems. Mr. Michael Lee Johnson lives with his best friend, Nikki, the cat, and is content to be living in a small suburb of Chicago. | |
| | | | | | next | | South Chicago Night by Michael Lee Johnson Night is drifters,sugar rats, street walkers, pickpockets, pimps,insects, Lake Michigan perch,neon signs blinking half the bulbsburned out.
| | | Everything Red for the Queen by Michael Lee Johnson Everything is red in the kingdom of the queen.Matador hat with barnacles,witch white hair to the shoulders,tickling the breast.In her eye | | | Alexandra David-Neel (V2) by Michael Lee Johnson She edits her life from a room made darkagainst a desert dropping s | |
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| | Like Zen by Michael Lee Johnson You are morningwhen the artist comesyoung oriental with your | | | Heaven is My Horse Fly (V2) by Michael Lee Johnson Heaven is My Horse Fly (V2)A common horse flyperipatetic travelervacationing in my worldinto my bathroom,(ride me cowboy, fly) | | | Saskatchewan Sky by Michael Lee Johnson Saskatchewan SkySaskatchewansky,just a preview of love,chip off | | | Open Eyes Laid Back by Michael Lee Johnson Open eyes, black-eyed peas,laid back busy live | | | Restless Hawk (V2) by Michael Lee Johnson Restless Hawk (V2)The angels of wings are always in flightbe the devil or archangel Michael.I\'m a hawk, I\'m a night owl nightbarroom flights, fighter,seeing eyes t | | | Turnip in the Still by Michael Lee Johnson Turnip in the Still In shadow wooden structures | | | Mount Pleasant Cemetery (V2) by Michael Lee Johnson Mount Pleasant Cemetery (V2)(Toronto, Ontario Canada)Gravediggers uprooting casketswith sharp, steel shovels-each slicing step downward | | | | next | |
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