Tag: writer
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On Ashen rains and fire
Sometimes the thought of living fills me with exuberance. I think of poetry, art, and music, and an insatiable hunger to create seizes me. But then, sometimes the thought of existence distresses me and fills me with the dread of a pagan on Judgement day. And though I look for a balance, an Autumn that […]
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Gangrene
I I am an enigmatic man who lets his troubled past, chock-full of paternal blows dictate him while ironically allowing the languor of the present lull him into a false sense of security. I also incongruously live in make-believe future Mays replete with bountiful harvests, cider, and red amaranths in bloom like little Cardinals. I […]
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Lessons
My sorrow, she comes tome when lifeless apartmentcomplexes with windowslike cardboardboxes with holes punchedin them replace thehoney chested,sweet, ashen-winged thrushwith her euphonious,polyphonic birdsong,and echoes ofwho I’ve becomeare the only voicesin my mind,saying, “You’re forever failingand falling into afading symphony;you’re forever fallingand failing likea fading symphony.” I wish I could let her go;I wish I didn’t […]