We Are The Theodicy 3

*If you would like to accompany this piece with music, scroll to the bottom and press play on the Soundcloud player.  Art is my explanation for life within the mystery. We are emerging fiction. The artist? An order of being beyond sense, measure, and description. There is a melody to it all, a song behind…

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We are the Theodicy 2

*If you would like to accompany this piece with music, scroll to the bottom and press play on the Soundcloud player.  What does this mean to our lives? The realization of dreams require the suppression and extermination of not only nightmares but other dreams. No matter how gentle the weapons of choice may appear, they…

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I Am Become Death

(The SoundCloud player is at the bottom. The music is intended to set the mood)   His eyes opened far too late to save her from the oncoming storm, the hunted now cornered at last, entropy materialized into a mass of virulent dissolution; her life ends like the explosion of fire-colored leaves from the boot…

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Midnight

It was supposed to be you.   Champagne. Twinkling lights. A new red dress. You and me. Instead I find myself looking into his deep green eyes instead of your warm brown ones on New Year’s Eve. The clock seems to go forward and back. He looks at me the way you were supposed to.…

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A Year’s Worth of Oxygen

The cold crept into my bedroom one night, While I stared at the ceiling and did anything but sleep. It hung its coat in the closet, Its scarf on the door, And it slipped its naked body into bed next to me, Stroking my arms and hips, Kissing my cheek the way you used to.…

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Curb your Enthusiasm

Life wants to be lived. It wants to grow deeper and wider. It wants to be felt in your inward parts and find its expression in everything you do. It wants to run freely through all that you are and you should let it. Do things with a little life and you’ll feel strong and…

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Dad’s Girlfriend

I never thought my dad would date again. He made it so clear. “I’m done with women.” “Can’t behave that long.” “Can’t be what they want me to be.” It was almost a decade, when the two of us were all each other had. My dad was my best friend, playgrounds and baseball and cycling…

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Be A Soldier

Jerry, you’re one hell of a person and I’m sure you know it. You help everyone, and you do everything you can. You walk all those extra miles each day, and you weep for every bad word they say about me. I admire all of it, babe. I admire the flexing of your muscles when…

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The Woods

The fear hung in the air like the smell of rain in late October. Too subtle to cripple his purpose and yet too apparent to ignore. Jamie’s hair grew wild like African vines. It complimented his dark skin and scruff sprinkled along his jawline. In these past weeks he had become a wild tiger, a…

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So, it’s over

So, it’s over. The mess of her tangled hair that used to hover over your fingers, teasing every single muscle in your palm. The linen sheets now smell of a common detergent and of your tears, instead of her lavender shampoo and mysterious perfume. The songs you used to love are now left unplayed, and…

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