When the bumblebee dies, the day is the most beautiful it has ever seen. The world above has never been so blue, so clear and lulling, and the trees have never smelled so sickeningly sweet. The bumblebee once thought that trees were like the promise…
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Sonnet #3: An Empty Playground Strewn with Fallen Leaves
An empty playground strewn with fallen leaves,So vacant, phantom children run with glee.In ages past we once were in that breeze,Two girls, they hid and sought, laughing with trees.Black hairs and eyes so youthly, beautiful—Do we still bear the same resemblance now?Well time has passed, yet bonds aren’t moveable,We’ll always be best friends, no why…
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Sonnet #4: She is a butcher, not of animals She is a butcher, not of animals,Of names and dreams and all that comes between.A blade she holds, it is implacable, It yearns for more and weeps for all it’s seen.She butchers her bird’s wings and holds them fast,She cuts away the muscles and the fat. Her tears…
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Sonnet #2: A Hero—I Heard You Were Searching For A hero— I heard you were searching for,Someone of shining armor and pure heart,No tainted soul, you needed someone more,With hopeful eyes that damned you from the start.I shan’t be cruel and tell you that I knowWho you are seeking, nor what you should find.Once long…
Read MoreWinter’s Promise
Present. Past. Future.These are three beings I know.Intangible and impalpable peoplewho nevertheless walk with mein the snow. Present and Future leave nofootprints for the eye,and you would not even know they were there,if Present’s boots did not crunch with a sigh. Past indents the white fieldwith tracks that are faint and true,left with flowers springing,yet…
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Three deer statues,side by side,once so golden and smooth.To the farthest left and right,the two are hugein comparison to the fawn snuggled in between. Sightless eyes andscentless nosesyou would think make for poor sketchesof the world revolving.But it is not so,for the deer see more than you and I.A world not meant for thee and me.…
Read MoreBeloved Soul
I do not live alone. The man that shares the house with me under this roof is a peculiar one, though. I call him Amias, a name of latin origin meaning “beloved”. I don’t know his real name. He will never tell me. So to me,…
Read MoreRain, Rain, (Do(n’t)) Go Away
It rains too much where I live. It is raining again today. Peering beyond the streaked glass window, I strain to see the faint lamplights pulsing in the haze. Dark, round hats and black umbrellas dot the streets, poorly attempting to cast…
Read MoreObsessive Body
There is a certain sense of the word “body” that seems strange. Is a body not a vessel? Is it not a frame, designed to protect the inner gears of what keeps you alive? Skin, bone, muscle, hair… It all makes sense— all has a purpose, a reason to wrap their arms around the beating…
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Dear Thom, It is with a troublesome heart and a heavy soul that I must write to you. I confess that I have been feeling lost and unsure of what to do. You were the only person I could think of who may have an answer for this baffling ordeal. Unless you, too, believe my…
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