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Max Smith

God Is a Parent

GOD is a parent

1 min readDec 3, 2023

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God Is a Parent

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Max Smith

Persistence

This light is persistent

1 min readDec 2, 2023

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Beautiful orange sunset or sunrise over a dark horizon.

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Max Smith

bob

Like a casket upon the water I bob Above me I hear the haunting caw of gulls each cry echoing the ether the night and the moon are one…

1 min readDec 2, 2023

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Image of a woman lying face up in an open and translucent casket in the ocean

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Max Smith

Rosacea, Blood Rose

Rose blood lifts its mouth tilts its head hungry for scent its color a sign not of secret assignations but of the diligence with…

1 min readDec 1, 2023

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Illustration of a young woman clad in a red strapless dress against a grey background holding a red rose with red and pink hearts floating down around her.

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Max Smith

Poem Without a Name

Lying in bed between sleep and the verge of wakefulness I thought again of what had been without warning or time to spare my hand sprouted…

1 min readOct 12, 2023

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Poem Without a Name

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Max Smith

Good Friends

Withered and lost the breasts chopped off it was not that that killed her the cause diagnosed but none to hear its telling its secret…

1 min readSep 3, 2023

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Two young women, best friends, embracing on the beach, one with her arm around the shoulder of the other, the two of them, heads touching, smiling, looking out at the camera.

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Max Smith

Chit Chat 2

Constant chatter endless complaints i want to turn your mouth into a sleeping bag and zip it shut out the noise not only from my (own)…

1 min readSep 3, 2023

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Grey scale photograph of a screaming mouth dripping slimy liquid, the upper half of the face and the rest of the head covered or perhaps buried in concrete.

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Max Smith

Robbery

Highway or low-way beneath the bridge or hanging from the overpass what is this life how did she get here stretched so thin a baker could…

1 min readJul 21, 2023

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Photo from behind of a woman with long dark hair and a white cotton eyelet looking out at the horizon and the meeting of an aqua colored ocean and pale white skies.

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Max Smith

Drilling for Diamonds, A Natural Resource

I want to see stories told other than the stories told by others I want to hear bells peal other than the bells of others ringing…

2 min readJul 16, 2023

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Black and white photo of a lovely male, with his nude upper midriff exposed as he looks off seriously into the distance.

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You are good, you are fine, you are ready

You are good. You are fine. You are ready. The things I tell myself each morning as I lift my weighted head from the pillow My head…

2 min readJul 3, 2023

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Black and white photo of a young woman looking off to the side in sadness and contemplation.

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Max Smith

Max Smith

My background: journalism & communications. My goal : to shed light and connect us through our common humanity. Message me for writing/communications projects.

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