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The Catacombs of Night

Lo! I have wrestled angels in the catacombs of night and risen, as if from the dead, bone-weary, at daylight, my sheets soaked through with fevered sweat and every muscle sore, and tufts of mutilated feathers scattered on the floor, … Continue reading

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On Heartbreak

It breaks my heart to think of you out there in pain; I hope you, too, likewise consider how I feel in your attempts to keep it real. I wonder, though, if broken hearts are not in fact where real … Continue reading

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Before the Last Visit to the Vet

The smell of the sick-house lingers where the medicines are mixed; even fresh washed clothes and fingers tend to keep the reek of it. The taste of food is changed, its scent turned sour and stale, reducing appetites to nil … Continue reading

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The Doldrums

Now to the Doldrums we have come, our sails gone limp, weighed down and still, and not a breath of wind is left to draw from old Poseidon’s lungs. The brackish air insults what brawn we strain to heave against … Continue reading

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A Tree in Winter

When in the winter, I shall stand a bare tree tall on frozen land there may be some who choose to rake among the leaves left in my wake and into separate piles by hue divide these skeletons. But who … Continue reading

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Untitled Sonnet

If I never saw another morning sky nor waked to hear the sparrows on the lawn, if roses gave no scent when I walked by and all the butterflies were dead and gone, there still would be their memory in … Continue reading

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Losing a Good Friend

I found I knew you, and then you were gone; they seem too brief, the paths that we wandered, and though in my memory you live on it feels like so many days were squandered. The things that I should … Continue reading

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