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Half-alive in These Streets
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Chorus of the Velvet Sludge
Chorus of the Velvet Sludge
A surreal backseat romance of diner light, burnt coffee, and reckless devotion. Strange, intimate, and a little feral, it reads like a love story found crumpled in a coat pocket.
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Asphalt Choir
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I Watch Myself Go
I Watch Myself Go
An existential ache in slow motion. Quiet, repetitive, and faintly unsettling, it lingers where memory blurs and the voice telling the story starts to sound improvised.
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As of Late
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Shell Sounds
Shell Sounds
Take a trip to the seaside in this brief evocative vignette filled with sites and sounds to invite you into a world of fleeting moments.
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Nathan Roberton
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Stars
Stars
Is our fate etched upon us from afar or are we floating in an endless unreasoning dance of chance? This poem invites you to dwell in rather than resolve this ancient question.
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Nathan Roberton
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Tough love
Tough love
A meditation on creative hunger and the quiet tension between devotion and exhaustion, where time blurs and creation becomes both refuge and constraint.
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Nathan Roberton
Poetry
Dying for a Cigarette
Dying for a Cigarette
A vivid portrait and reflection on a loved one’s passing, their steadfast support, tender moments, and wry wit as well as life’s brutal turns and often bitter end.
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Lynne Marie
Poetry
I long to kiss the image of my death
I long to kiss the image of my death
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Lynne Marie
Poetry
I long to kiss the image of my death
I long to kiss the image of my death
Written in the early 1960s, this poem explores a mother’s connection to her youngest child through shifting seasons and quiet moments of reflection, lingering in love, identity, and loss across time.
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Jacqueline Rosalie Montchalin
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A Ritual of Forgetting
A Ritual of Forgetting
Some memories refuse to leave, even when you burn, bury, or drown them. They linger in ash, sand, and salt—stubborn as ghosts.
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Nathan Roberton