GoldDust Magazine

It's time you learn the power & history of Gold

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Helping Himself

  I didn’t know I was raped, Until I knew I was raped.   Quite the contradiction, right? He’s laughing at the irony, I’m sure.   He was the second person to ever “have” me, Without my permission of course.   I woke up the next morning,  Cloaked in shame and faint smells of whiskey. […]

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Words

  You are the one that showed me that words (so beautifully written they bring me to tears) are meaningless. You make words meaningless. You’re a balloon, filled with hot air. You’re a writer searching for God in women with nice faces. You fed me your words until I became full and fat, then you […]

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1.20.19

i’m here i’m doing it do you ever think wow i would have never never never done this a year ago but now i’m here i’m doing it i’m growing roots deeper stronger branches longer closer to the sun every day do you ever look in the mirror at your naked body & smile & […]

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Almost

  Do you remember that night in May? It was almost summer & we were flushed hot, skin burnt from Jagger bombs & Tullamore D.E.W. We came here, Mad Planet, sweat slicked, disco thighs, & we danced to “Boys Don’t Cry,” Later that night, I watched you undress. You took off your clothes, peeled off […]

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Moonlight Love

  Maybe it was the moment when your  Eyes first felt like home, the soft color Of happy childhood skies.   Or all of the gentle smiles for no reason, But the hook in your cheek pulls anyway. The smirk that slows down time.   It could be the first time your touch Felt like […]

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The Gilded Lies of Beauty and Power

Her waves of kindness and fits of rage left her tested like their pageant queens. A pretty yacht docked at the Maramont port, she’s just the tender and wayward age of youth. A pink dress, mascara, and heels, and later downtown in tight leather that cinched the waist.  She looked the part but missed all […]

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i am a body of water

  i am a body of water   a child of the port born under the sun the scent of the ocean always lingering   i am a body of water   the same stream my ancestors used to wash their bodies rinse their hands give them life   i am a body of water […]

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Conquered Woman

Unwanted whispers flood her ears Blaring music of the club, Fades away.   His humid breath strikes fear Her body tenses with shivers, She cringes.   He tries to bring her near Bodies too close for comfort, He conquers.   It doesn’t matter to me That you have a boyfriend, He screams.   His power […]

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Did he cross the dry Sierras?

  Did he cross the dry Sierras to shape a fable Paris? How blue it is, the end of hilltops. The colonists are realtors, with fuel pumps against the sun. With a shade in the eye, no thrones to weight and poems to speak. Darker than Vesuvius, a dearth of Caruso. Yes, there is something […]

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i want the type of lover

i want the type of lover   who offers to cook dinner washes the dishes ties my shoelaces makes the bed blows out the candles takes out the trash turns off the tv folds up the blanket because they see   sometimes i am too tired to

The Feeding

A dusty fan circulated across the room from one end to the other. It’s been a while since Augustus put it to use, so he couldn’t blame the junk for its inability to remember its single duty. Arkansas hasn’t had a summer night like this since he was a child. He lay in his damp […]

I Was Lying in the Sun

  I was lying in the sun, Near juniper shrubs and storybook villas. Not enough profit and pleasure in the telling of, The tapping of a cigarette, The brush of bare knees, A long draught of wine, Closing the shutters on balconies, With blinds made of lace at Angel’s Bay. Red watermelon hues. I’ve read […]

Becoming Another

I am obligated to remember this; being small. For weeks I recall nothing at all. Once I was ordinary, Lying under another’s sequoias tree. When it thundered, I hid in a pit. A Cratus is among us, His three siblings too. Mother, I am becoming another. I must swallow it all. I have never known, […]