From the Dreamscape

The final chapter, as continued from part 1 and part 2: Disconnect. Static ambience…a one, two, three stumble into disarray. Everything cuts out as the dark one crosses the threshold, and the world spins around him. The floor is on his back–or is his back on the floor? To the sharp, drawn-out shrill of a [...]

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From the Dreamscape

A continuation from part 1: There is a girl, dancing. Alone in the pitiless darkness of the moonlit night, the wind catches her hair and sways her swirling body to and fo as the leaves of the endless rows of circling trees begin to whistle and hiss. She rides the storm. She slows with every [...]

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From the Dreamscape

Two figures lurch across an open field. These brothers come to stand mere feet apart, eyes locked as their hands steady above their belts. There are guns, somewhere, and knives eneath these, but the hands do not betray the moments–they know their duty to the instant, and so they wait. Morose reflections in a quaking [...]

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Conquerors’ Dreams

In frost springs the fall, fleet-footed hunter dancing through valleys yoked and fair. The little one, sheltering in shade breathes only darkness where the shoe once fell. Dreams of the day he’ll tell the little children, when men conquered mountains.

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One more night

Child wakes the deep dark drink Eternity lost somewhere between the closet and the sheets, mother’s cries no assurance to the ones that can still see. Only bears might be knights to ward reality another night; only dolls might soothe the tears of time’s inevitable drum. One more night, they cry, and the pillow does [...]

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Long Journeys

Gold paths contain fine meals, thousands to the dollared flesh divined by rare suit gestures— even time’s hand a sacred cost.   To the bursting, cries the chef as I lay my body down, waiting for the planes to burn this hollow out.   Snow frosts the window panes beyond man’s wheels, ice gathers undertone, [...]

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Frosted Moonlight

Nights grow cold moonlit salivation stirs frosted dreams.

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Debate

A turnkey sparks the dragons Where crystal twilight trickles. Stop. Smeared shadows mourn looking glass— No more. Mother primes the engine, Tear-laden, rain-streaked, the world— Can you see it? The rain, Where it falls It dances on the starlight of our— Passing dreams. The child seeks winged flames Wreathed and wrought of golden beams, Of [...]

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Sleepless #Haiku

Sleepless night. Soft sweat of dawn’s light Breaks my dreams.

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Construction

Growled destruction. Asphalt breaks in haze-light, as my dreaming.

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