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  • Little Boy Blue

    EDIT: deleted. ^^

    1 min read
  • bibliophilia

    to think in metaphors... the lines of his face, gilded by man-made fire and the ceiling mottled with birthmarks of amber are such testaments to those who watch unseen, the ...

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  • how to begin a poem

    how to begin a poem when the subject no longer exists? so your fatalistic penchants, pretty gin-soaked boy, taste of snow and apples on my tongue. so you darkened my ...

    1 min read
  • All Souls

    The moon’s belly hangs low, scraping glass cliffs and the leaf-wreathed wind softly strokes the pregnant, pockmarked skin. Read the entrails in the maria and conjugal craters: This is his ...

    2 min read
  • Daisies and Oxalis

    [unrefined; rip it to shreds] ... ... ... nose prints on beaded glass and marker-stained palms aside, she wonders how difficult it would be to reclaim the past. not the ...

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  • Phantasos

    Phantasos lingers: crouched, hunched, nose buried in borrowed poppies. He is fragments and run-ons taken out of context, stygian white and green as sin, failing wings over lakes, bookends and ...

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  • Untitled (Verboten)

    If the pen could capture the sound of your voice, would it draw the sky for me? Moon and Sun? The sky as seen from a Babel unfinished, gray light ...

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  • In which I abstract the all-too tangible.

    once upon a time we told each other a story which street-lights were infallible. I remember it ............ so clearly because the air smelled like cardamom, ............ ............ ............ tho

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  • Encore. [Edited]

    it’s not like either of us was unrequited—...........—I should say imparlibidinous— more that we couldn’t agree on whose arms went where, and how to braid our four legs together. it ...

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Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
— William S. Burroughs