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the promise

October 17, 2016 4 Comments

promise me, son that you’ll feel– the hawks’ umber-wing September-shrill that you’ll learn the voices the deathless legions borne upon her solitary cry as it slices open a reticent sky top, split from bottom east, from west north, from south each, again halved– and within each space another world, gifted if we’d dare its grace, […]

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tho our sparrows may whisper

August 27, 2016 Leave a Comment

where once we’d walked together climbing over our wooded-path stones now, love, we live walking these paths, alone distant, our villages finding ourselves sheltered in different planes of existence tho neither of us higher nor lower than the other aye, nor be we beside despite our differing history quite nearly belying even those daring moments […]

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muttering shadows

August 27, 2016 2 Comments

a few key-turns and a mash of the rubber pedal she started right up, eager– front wheels spinning with zealous fervor spinning freely, in the black-morning air going nowhere after a while, I realized the car was perched up on a bent lamppost the windshield, smashed on the driver’s side bloody the crash, right next […]

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red swelter

August 15, 2016 4 Comments

in the drip-paint barn to the south, and slightly west of the mountain-house he’d built there were hundreds of glass trinkets small, abstract sculptures and such– glittering baubles that he’d blown of molten shimmer aye, the small ways we fill– the red swelter of our days still, I had to throw them all away after […]

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suburban gardens

July 24, 2016 Leave a Comment

crawling in the garden its stinging tail, twitching long, and pointed such anger such compulsion to injure a murderer’s quiet rage jailed behind tiger-hide stripes black bands painted upon saffron leaving me curious, and fearful I watched as it twitched my skin chilled under summer’s red zeal knowing– if it came at me if it […]

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Tall Glass Windows

June 5, 2016 5 Comments

Tyson might have been the last of them, an Eighties killer who captured our hearts for a time, but it ended ugly, and it was the darker parts of our hearts which were touched, awe mixed with fear, sprinkled with hate– something primal, a shining-sweat mingling of pride and shame. There were a few after: […]

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thus, without measure

June 4, 2016 Leave a Comment

the age of a soul never known by time’s ticking animus thus, without measure only this flesh– burns to ash under the pyre’s spiraling swelter and an expiry thus, just more dust, scattered but shall we ever return? the way Benny was screaming his hoary desperation into the tall night aye, into the deafened desert […]

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immortal teacher

June 3, 2016 19 Comments

sunshine-summer love we’d deserved more than what we’d taken of this dusty place that poverty which we’d accepted our souls, displaced we’d given enough– we haven’t much time here these amber days fall over swiftly still and when the moon is full laced, and sheer in its mist of tears too distant to capture on […]

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Questionable Behavior

May 10, 2016 10 Comments

“To be, or not to be– That is the question.” As this famous phrase spoken by Prince Hamlet was, in fact, spoken by Hamlet, a man, and not by Ophelia, a woman, there was only one (solitary) question. Were Ophelia to have asked the question, it would have been followed by several other questions, dozens […]

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Quotables

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