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Continue reading →: RepossessionRead time: 1 min Years the house stood vacant on the lot.Damp and dust conjoined; mold grew.Then vines broke in, became trees.Ants turned beams to sand.Winds beat against walls.The house fell, thenit sank into themud.
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Continue reading →: My Poems Presented by Literary Revelations Journal
I am deeply thrilled to share that my poems “Pandora’s Defense” and “Mórrígan’s Tree” are now published on Literary Revelations. Thank you to their lovely Editor in Chief, Gabriela Marie Milton, for this opportunity! As a preview, here are favorite lines from “Pandora’s Defense: “Open this box and you will…
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Continue reading →: Honoring Ada LovelaceIf you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science? – Lady Ada Lovelace Editing poems for potential inclusion on the blog this week led me to reflect on the connection between my professional life and my creative life, and the ancestors to whom I owe that connection.…
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Continue reading →: The RunnerRead Time: 1 min. It’s the late 30s in Tennessee. This guy named Coy Revere Jr. is out running still-swill and watching Smokey appear in his Plymouth’s rear-views. He does a one-eighty. He does a one-eighty at one hundred miles per hour. The blurry, dusty tires release a scorched squeal…
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Continue reading →: To Bollingen’s Alchemist, ThanksRead time: 2 min. Continuing with the speaker from “Shadowboxing.“ “Philemonis Sacrum – Fausti Poenitentia” – C. G. Jung’s inscription on a gate at Bollingen Tower He let us in through the mirror, my shadow and I, the old magician to whom we’d come nigh. Said he to me, “Before…
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Continue reading →: ShadowboxingRead time: 1 min. Continuing with the speaker from “It’s Nothing“ In a bright alleywaysomeone pressed a stake to my back. I struck their skull with my cane; and felt the crack in my cranium. I collapsed into them, my head at their neck. My fangs found their jugular; I…
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Continue reading →: It’s Nothing
Read time: 1 min. As a child I feared Nothing. Nothing hid under my bed; Nothing watched me from the tree limbs. When our neighbor’s house drowned in crackling flames, Nothing gloated over its former foundation. As I grew they asked what I wanted. I used to say anything because…
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Continue reading →: Commentary on “Three Suggestions”Read time: 2 min. When I shared my poem “Three Suggestions” the other week, I had no picture on hand that I felt really captured its meaning. I also had no notion of what illustration I could create. I ultimately chose a photo of the sun behind a library to…
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Continue reading →: Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku, edited by Gabriela Marie MiltonI am deeply honored to have my work included in editor Gabriela Marie Milton’s upcoming book Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku from Literary Revelations, due for publication in late April. The image above (courtesy of Literary Revelations Publishing House) shows the cover, featuring the wonderfully vivid artwork of Japanese artist…
Hello,
I’m David
I’m a full time Instructional Systems Designer and a free time Creative Writer. I hold a PhD in instructional design and development, an MA in writing, and a BA in writing and theology. My current creative focus is on honoring nature and our connection to our environment. My pronouns are he/they.
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