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Safe and Cold and Alone
Excerpts from journals dated 2/18/25 and 3/2/25 I feel alone and hunted. I feel disheveled and ungrounded. I am no longer home; I am in a den that reeks of panicked sweat where I fail to…
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A Light from Dark Shores
I don’t understand what has happened to me in the last few days. I feel like I’ve been tumbled in freezing water and dropped into place. My arms feel week, my chest is aching, I feel…
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Blind Commitment
When there is no right or wrong answer, there is only convenience and investment. A particularly free spirit could accommodate their own tendency to step off the plane of the world, pursuing a song true to…
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A Trick of the Light
It is easier to forgive myself for giving up hope than for struggling to find the words to wish it farewell. I would sooner be a poet than a living thing. Still, I breathe. I want…
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Starry Lasses
Here’s to the ne’er easy ladies of Aries,Fires of Sheratan, never to cull-Gone is the mate who had sought ‘em to sate:When they got to rammin’ he went through the hull! Here’s to the chorus of…
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A Distant Spring
The culling of my heart draws near with autumn, and the pain arrives gently with the first signs of death. These broad and storied leaves, these dutiful flowers, have spent their worth in service of another…
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Chapter 1: The Earth
What stars had risen for the birth of himhad long since sat obscured behind the mawof yellowseed and black that was the Sky.For time beyond the Exodus of manwas left behind, the same as Mother Earth,and…
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Prologue
When Man first took the Earth complete in hand,and made of it a heaven of their own-the first to go were barriers of flesh-and last to go were barriers of heart.Together, all them seep’d within and…
Sanctity and Constraint 