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The Image of the Key
The Image of the Key
The image of the key, imprinted, carved ceremoniously like an instinct, like an infant’s first breath, a scream, or the peeping frogs…
martin.strange
Jan 31, 2020
A Betrayal
A Betrayal
You’re quick to call it a betrayal, a shift in mood, an aural metempsychosis, like a fly granted liberties from the spider’s web or the…
martin.strange
Jan 30, 2020
Somber Orange
Somber Orange
Her face was on the water, rippling, a sad smile, forlorn, the brook was trickling, a memory submerged, a soul shorn, a Psyche buried in…
martin.strange
Jul 4, 2019
Climbing Holy Mountains
Climbing Holy Mountains
There is a ban on climbing holy mountains fences ring it round in orange plastic with little signs declaiming, in official prayers, the…
martin.strange
May 31, 2019
An Independent Court
An Independent Court
An independent court, for jesters, panoplied in purples and greens, on tip-toes, serenading blue jays and sea gulls, as the whooshing…
martin.strange
Oct 21, 2018
Fifteen seconds
Fifteen seconds
We’re all Gene Simmons, with our little masks and monikers, our monochrome painted faces, our twitter handles and pseudonyms, embracing…
martin.strange
Aug 10, 2018
In Antiphon
In Antiphon
When hearts break hard in antiphon, their thoughtless chatter echoing like cave bats fiercely chattering, or Pegasus tamed by the hero…
martin.strange
May 24, 2018
Dessicated
Dessicated
The dead line up in regiments — it’s always about time — they march to ghoulish drums with femur sticks and rib cages played like…
martin.strange
May 15, 2018
Trilling
Trilling
It’s an old enough question what makes you — your blood or the place where you were planted if you wear tartan in the desert and in your…
martin.strange
May 11, 2018
The Water
The Water
The water is moving in mystery, and on a rainbow splice, some skitterbug slides, on a slick rail line, whooshing, gushing, here the…
martin.strange
May 9, 2018
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