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Andrea Laws

Andrea Laws currently resides in Lawrence, KS, working in the field of scholarly publishing for the University Press of Kansas. She graduated from the University of Kansas with both a B.A. in English with a focus on creative writing and in Film Studies with a focus on film theory and criticism. Her poetry has been published in three compiled books of poetry and featured on twelve literary websites, journals, and blogs. Her influences have been from the masters of gothic literature, but she would like to think that she adds a modern voice to this genre with her incorporation of current themes through an “old school” format. Andrea wants her readers to have a sense of longing and desire to seek the unknown and always want more by understanding what her words mean to them. She is a nature-loving, dark enduring, Kansas girl that seeks to break barriers of stereotypes.

Lust

struts down the slums

wearing only skin, and

spreads herself like a martyr

 

she is the moment

passing property, she

seeks for pleasure

 

her love to you

offered in matters of

time as her walk fades

 

with sharp heel clicks and

her real name is never

wondered

Hurricane

hurricane

where is your eye

this judged case

where the sentence is

destruction dance

helplessness

 

we await 

your homecoming 

reminisce the past by

rummaging the damage

you created that we 

created

 

is it your understanding,

gathering debris to

disagree?

is it your way to

remind us that we

are not in power?

 

drop out of 

nowhere 

build up devour, 

leaving building

blocks of karma to

tower survivors

 

hail tears remain suspicious, 

thunder rolling auspicious

remember we are alike

will we ever learn

when your lightening

will strike?

Lapsed

your footsteps patter 

my bones fill with 

dark desire 

to worship you

 

your eyes

sunken holes that once

reflected journeys of 

intimacies forbidden

 

I stop myself from

stirring the cauldron

I drink the anecdote and

cast a crucifix for

 

nostalgic protection 

I once believed

the only footprints I see

are mine

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