Tag: sorrow
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The gravedigger’s son
The shovel and spade, nick -snick-flick, the earth like rotting flesh, and movements and sequences, nick- snick-flick, instinct, impulse, reason, combining with each nick- snick-flick, making my father weary, and the eulogies for sons lost in accidents, daughters dying of cancer, got to him, and the fire and brimstone spewed, unnerved him, and so, he […]
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Zilch
Returning from a vacationin that charming, picturesquetown replete with brown,stony mountains and verdant,velvety valleys,petrichor wafting from therich mud outside the quaintcottage I’d rented,the grey-white windows burnishedby colourless, slender fingersreaching down from the heavens,coffee and silver oak,a green, chaotic, dwarfed jungleinterspersed with wafer-thin, tallbranches, I should have feltinvigorated or at leastexperienced some cathartic bliss,a vague communion […]
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