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An Ending

drcharles — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:10:06 +0000

She coughs and heaves a breathless goodbye into the bedside phone. Her lungs damp, bloated, sacked honeycomb wheeze with vanishing bees. The room of sensors and startling noise has not air to float upon. Morphine slakes a thirst for breathable sky and calms the panic within. The shame of living, of death smiling, savoring smoke […]

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Bioluminescence

drcharles — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:02:02 +0000

The world is not created by artisan gods of myth who chisel, hammer, or breathe life into small things. Glorious pinwheels of light are not heaved upon high by a grunting God of fret and toil. Instead creation is stomped blithely into being by the scampering footfalls of delighted spirits holding sandy hands down a […]

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Practicing

drcharles — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:57:56 +0000

Often I defer pleasure, learning, enduring, working so hard I bring you into my dreams. I see happiness. I receive red tomatoes from fertile gardens. I hold grey hands with the dying as my throat aches. I read letters of profound gratitude, and listen to silently screaming blame. You expect health and immortality, as do […]

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A Vow to Self

drcharles — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:19:43 +0000

We promise ‘in sickness and health’ a mutual defense a hedge against But never an oath to our self to resolutely live to self forgive Betrayed by the twitch of nervous cords frayed Deceived by the growth that breeds more each day Abandoned by wit sinking heavy like clay. So say it now while you […]

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