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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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My once sweet voice

My once sweet voice, so innocent and full of strength and power is now reduced to rasp and hum, its range half what it was. It rumbles, where it once so glibly glissed; the pure head tone has sunk into … Continue reading

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Finding Neverland

‘Tis said there lurks a boy inside each man, whose unhealed wounds from childhood form a part of how he goes about when it is time to find the man inside the young boy’s heart, whose grandiose bravado and fierce … Continue reading

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To Progress: a bucolic

To those who wish the past returned and simple life brought back in fashion, a relationship with the land renewed and the blight of urban living shunned, a hundred years of progress dissolved in the bliss of primitive survival, Who … Continue reading

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Lady Sorrow

for Starlight Dances When the laughter in your eyes can’t hide the pain inside your heart And the world around you will not stop to listen When you wake up in the morning with a space inside your soul And … Continue reading

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The Calms of Capricorn

Only five degrees to the north or south, shifted just slightly from this present course (here where the still air hangs in the mouth and even expelled shows no sign of force) and the trip would have been much different, … Continue reading

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