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Welcome to the Undertown
Undertown (n): Like the bottom part of the wave that actually moves all the water (and can do all the damage), that beneath the surface pulls you in and gives you an appreciation of the ocean, the undertown is that … Continue reading
The Eyes
Watch the eyes: they reflect scars that long since faded from the flesh still mark the hard survivor’s face with phantom traces, and though less pronounced with each new moment’s span can in some lights, and moods, reveal the inner … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, enemies, eyes, intentions, paranoia, spies, subconscious, the soul
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undertown
in the undertown around the middle earthen jars the senseless struggle: i shall be released from this before the current pulls me undertown, around the rooting rockets way before the dawn of timing, when our cultured throats scream out so … Continue reading
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Tagged covertness, escape, imagists, Memphis, secrets, struggle, subconscious, surrealism, underbelly
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The Giant Squid
Beware the Kraken, great beast of the seas that brings grown sailors as one to their knees; it strikes without warning at things afloat and makes kindling from the grandest of boats. Its tentacles latch to our darkest dreams, and … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, kraken, poetry by request, sea monsters, sonnet, subconscious
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