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Poetry

Open de Deur

20 Apr 202031 Dec 2021
I knowI didn’t comeRegret crushes meI need to undo itI will undo it if you want You’ll never know how important you areI can’t believe I can’t tell you how…
Poetry

The Paladin Gangsters

14 Apr 202031 Dec 2021
I’ve had a few encounters with the ladies recentlyJust to rediscover my body and assess its efficacyAfter a life as a monk and eight years of celibacyWith sideburns greying and…
Prose

The Letter

3 Apr 202031 Dec 2021
No prince of poetry or prose has ever conjured the words that describe what I need to say to you now. I’ve checked. Yes, you are forgiven. No forgiveness has…
Prose

Noah, Part Two

27 Mar 202012 Apr 2024
The ancient wizard ambled slowly and deliberately down the coil of stairs that lined the inside of the stone walls which formed the skin of his remote spindle of a…
Poetry

The Bubble of You

9 Feb 202031 Dec 2021
In these last days, when my body’s own adrenalineCauses a cup of coffee to hit me like methamphetamineAnd I have no idea what I am to doMy hope is that…
Poetry

Campeona de la Ciudad

26 Jan 202031 Dec 2021
Noah's ark has sailedThat endeavor failedIf God wants me in the Holy LandHe'll have to outstretch his mighty handThis is no cause for a conniptionIt was just a matter of…
Prose

Noah, Part One

27 Dec 201931 Dec 2021
The day’s December melancholy draped the hills and streets in the form of an omnipresent mist accented with drizzle. The traveler’s refuge was the festive environment of a Starbucks rather…
Poetry

The Widow’s Web

14 Dec 201931 Dec 2021
Each moment in life is like an anvil struck by a hammerEach experience involves a thousand sparks spraying the consciousnessWith a brilliant, luminous, colorful showerProviding the memory with a landscape…
Poetry

Aftermath

29 Nov 201924 Feb 2023
Inspired by a line from Silvia PlathI put the pen to paperDesperate to find myself again on a pathBut fearful to behold the scorched earth into which my path will taper  My family…
Poetry

The Agent

21 Nov 201918 Jan 2023
She was an agent from another plane of existenceHigher, outer, infernal, supernalHe didn’t really know the differenceHe only saw amatory, carnal, maternal He had to tell her the dealHe didn’t…

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