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Demons are Smarter Than You
The mist obediently hovers within the binding circle, coming once more and tamely to my call. How raucous it was when first I summoned it! How loudly it roared its name to the ceiling—how silent were the heavens that night. But now it is silent when it arrives, as silent as the heavens when I call, for I have bade it so. With it comes the sulfurous reek of its home and its own pets—a pair of tiny bat-winged imps no larger than my hand—and a deepening of the shadows in my basement conjury.
The fool has cast his spells of summoning again, and never were more clichéd words uttered than in this room. He thinks I am silent because he ordered
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for unseeing eyes
laden with sky
we stumbled
and painted mockingbirds
on loveless branches
folding in our slender limbs
and ducking under our own
voices, fidgety and frail
against the wall of night.
between the dipping blades
and drawn shoulders
we learned to craft our words
steady-soft,
a drumming rain
that carved canyons
in open hearts and
drew the sunshine to
our supping lips.
keen-eyed, we watched
remembering the weight
of unseeing eyes
and scalding remarks
and we learned to slip
the noose-knots and slide
through the soul-cracks
and somehow
build kingdoms under
upturned noses.
with lyrical uncertainty
and tender determinat
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October Eyes
Such gentle colors drip across your freckled shoulder blades.
A quilt of puddled watercolors soaked in auburn shades.
Spun of golden rivulets and rinsed in autumn skies,
So many endless currents swimming through your lonesome eyes.
Brushing under fingertips and over shattered songs,
Unraveling like morning glaze against my paling palms.
With beauty like October hills and hollow as the skies,
The water drops against the earth will be our lullaby.
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The imagery of a coffin filled with dead worms filled my mind the other day. The meaning of this vision was clear to me, a man given himself up for death; yet the earth was unwilling to accept him. This image stuck with me, further, the line "but the worm was dead, the worm was dead" repeated itself over and over in my mind.
Just this morning I logged in and heard the terrible news about a close friend of mine who was in critical condition and underwent surgery just this week. I know now why I had seen the vision I had.
And so, I dedicate these verses to me dear friend DarkRiderDLMC . Get well soon.
Just this morning I logged in and heard the terrible news about a close friend of mine who was in critical condition and underwent surgery just this week. I know now why I had seen the vision I had.
And so, I dedicate these verses to me dear friend DarkRiderDLMC . Get well soon.
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I am honored.
Hospital and rehab a month and a half with a month of outpatient cardiac therapy still to do, but two of my hearts arteries were completely blocked and a third almost so.
So the chopped my breastbone in half and bypassed all three.
But I live, my friend. And in the long run, that is what matters.
Hospital and rehab a month and a half with a month of outpatient cardiac therapy still to do, but two of my hearts arteries were completely blocked and a third almost so.
So the chopped my breastbone in half and bypassed all three.
But I live, my friend. And in the long run, that is what matters.