Tim Carmichael

Joined March 2025

253 stories

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I’m a firm believer life is messy, beautiful, and too short, which is why I write poems full of heart and humor. I am an Appalachian poet and cookbook author. My book Beautiful and Brutal Things is on Amazon, Link 👇

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How to Taste Forbidden Fire
Summon night like a velvet guest, Let it drape itself across your limbs. Sip bitterness as one savors spiced wine, Its fire crawling, silent and relentless.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
Someone Else’s Memories. Honorable Mention in Craft Over Catharsis Challenge.
Case #4721-B Status: CLOSED Date: October 31, 2047 Officer: Detective Sarah Vance, Homicide Division Victor Mendez died at 11:47 PM on October 29th from a single gunshot. His body was discovered in his study, slumped over his desk. Gun belonged to his wife, Margaret Mendez. She confessed immediately.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Fiction
A Hymn for Love Drunk on Sin
Love prowls alleys of spirit, perfumed venom sweetens wounds. Lips trade vows like contraband, kisses scorch faith to ash.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
Instructions for Coming Out Gay in a Pentecostal Southern Family
Begin at Sunday dinner, post-service, when Granny speaks in tongues, in a key that would make angels cover their ears and spiders applaud.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
Instructions for The House Nobody Knows
Touch a door that does not claim importance. Knock once. If nobody answers, enter anyway. * Bring nothing shiny. Bring nothing meant for trade.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
Eternal Embrace
Your name breaks open inside my mouth like fruit gone sweet with waiting. I am hunger that forgot it ever wanted food. Some days you are distant weather
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
OBSERVATION OF BEAUTY
All people are hereby informed that: Sunlight will enter today, stretching across hills and fields, turning dew into a thousand small lanterns.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
PUBLIC WARNING
Read slowly. Understanding is not guaranteed, but attention is required. * Carry proof of belonging. Present it when demanded.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
NOTICE TO ALL OBSERVERS
Please be advised: Love is scheduled to come without warning. It may come in forms you do not recognize, and at times you least expect.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
Practice of Looking
Morning opens lesson. Light settles upon water, steady, generous. Bird rests upon wire, dark eye awake, choosing sky
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
ATTENTION GRIEVANCE IN EFFECT. Winner in Public Announcement Challenge.
All personnel are hereby notified. Your routines may fail to sustain continuity. Absences of the departed have been recorded.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
Keys to Yesterday
This story centers around two siblings cleaning out their childhood home after the death of their father. “Are you just going to stand there holding that box all day?”
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Fiction