Publish & Perish

J.D. Harms
Nov 5 · 1 min read
Photo by Hannah Jacobson on Unsplash

Scraping down
to
the next installment

the paragraph
that ratchets the change
tight

around a climax
the way a coffin closes in

around a forgetting & forgiven
for stepping

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J.D. Harms

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committed to the aesthetic voice, forever charmed by the endurance of myth, aiming for synthesis

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