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Drouth
I invoke the air in rage,ย am like a cancer in a cageโ only myself to burn, to burn;ย mere glass and sun on an empty stage. Pick and...
Simple Anna
Simple Anna liked the words although she didnโt understand what many of them meant. Her man sometimes could make them into worlds where forests shaded green young girls. The...
Man in a Glacier
The mountainside failed. But whenย we saw that deep spot the dead sunย came back heavy as an engineย and my pick rattled like a gun. The ice unravelled;...
Aceldama
Eternity is uncorrupted light; the world proceeds by interrupting sight, exchanging day and night. Half the acts of earth avoid the sun; much that’s done may be begun by...