PUBLISHED: The Mirror Trials

  CLICK HERE TO GET The Mirror Trials Published by Daastan Thank you so much for your support. I've included a teaser and synopsis of the story below: ~ “We’re going to have to bring the stranger to the mirror ourselves. Explanation will be in vain. I just don’t see it any other way.” “He’s right....

Hush

A fire dances in spite of somber darkness A fetus thrives in the cramped accommodations of the womb The terminally ill continue to respire The madman's heart beats though a tempest is between his ears Will a foreteller hush even if he knows the future?

There are None

What could I say?  What sound on or off the blue-green Earth could I possibly utter? What string or stream of words or combination of statements, questions, or figurativeness could I write for the circumstances? There are none. Is there some kind of gesture I could extend? Adjust the degree of warmth or cold in...

There are Thirteen Ways to Look at a Blackbird

Sideways stranger and solitary dweller pauses at my knee I don’t move either from my cliffside seat Awareness, yes, I’m on the verge of acknowledgement, Of an amorphous, achromatic avian Apathy Therein begets a sight Shallow Surficial, skin-deep, skeletal even, Crown to throat, animated in tick-like pivots Curves to breast then flank The secondary and...

From the Spirit of Already-Written Words

Girlie, these are sacred things, Your passion swells the wells of springs; The tap from it runs plentifully, And would fill up empty cavities, it seems. But your sapphire insides, that hide unthrived, Will fester the rest of you, doubtless, in time. You’ve stoppered your own adit, dear, Leaving blues of fervor unmined in there....