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Tag Archives: Dead
Ghosts (Poems)
Mist dispersing from space to space Phantasm missing what was Traversing snow pass no footprints Last resident of castles battlements Filtering through sod and wood gazing upon his skeleton Levitating through leaf layers wrapped in blazing moonlight Forest specter ascending … Continue reading
Village (Fragment)
Located deep within the great plain, it flickers on the horizon. Surrounded by scrub land and sage bushes, its outskirts are dotted with graves. Some shallow with make shift crosses, others in yards with weathered head stones. All of the … Continue reading
Western
The streets were deserted in the dusty town. Desolate bar three men who were arguing. Epiphets were hurled, and eventually the men got on their horses and rode a short distance from the town. Getting off their horses, they formed … Continue reading
The City of Rema
Note: this is based upon one of Italo Calvino’s Invisible cities, Eusapia (pp 96 – 97, Invisible Cities, Vintage Classics). A city by the name of Eusapia has an underground city, identical to its surface city dedicated entirely to the … Continue reading
Posted in Invisible Cities
Tagged Busy, City, Danse Macabre, Dead, Death, Eternity, Eusapia, Faults, Flaws, Heaven, Hell, Hide, Hiding, Immortalize, Invisible, Invisible Cities, Invisible City, Isolated, Italo Calvino, Lights, Massive, Night, Rema, Skeleton, Skeletons, Subterranean, Surface, Swapped, Underground
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The City of Ikue
Ways of remembering ones dead are many and varied. The dead have been buried, cremated and immortalized in statue and monument. For the city of Ikue none of these were enough. Ikue needed a much more grand, and majestic way … Continue reading
Posted in Invisible Cities
Tagged Ancestors, Animal, Bones, Buried, City, Cremated, Dead, Death, Grave, Grave Yard, Human, Ikue, Immortalize, Immortalized, Invisible, Invisible Cities, Invisible City, Judge, Judging, Legacy, Monument, Skeleton, Skulls, Statue, Sublime
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Golden Giraffes Riding Scarlet Flamingos Through The Desert of Forever 