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Monthly Archives: February 2020

Poetry

The Monthlong Poem, 29 (60.)

February 29, 2020Chris King Leave a comment

Movement toward future. Dance not in the center, but on an arm of the spiral. I spin for myself, and hope that gravity attracts wayward seeds to me. Miracles …

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The Monthlong Poem, 28 (59.)

February 29, 2020Chris King Leave a comment

The galac-sea tosses ships and sentiments upon celestial sediment. The premise of my longing metastasized through these promises. A nebula of lust and want. Will flowers grow here?

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The Monthlong Poem, 27 (58.)

February 28, 2020Chris King Leave a comment

pleasure. At the center of swirling void, a solitary beacon sits.  The stars oscillate. Bright moments from long ago dot the sky. I connect them to you.

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The Monthlong Poem, 26 (57.)

February 27, 2020Chris King Leave a comment

the planets dance in something like measured ecstasy. Shuffling feet and speeding stars each contain a drop of joy, and to drink deep is the finest

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The Monthlong Poem, 25 (56.)

February 26, 2020Chris King Leave a comment

spinning, unending and unbeginning, constant toil with nary a thought marks the beauty of our milky way. Each system works upon the other, and even

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The Monthlong Poem, 24 (55.)

February 25, 2020Chris King Leave a comment

They coil and uncoil ceaselessly ’round the firmament. The cosmic springs wind themselves. Are we but dust caught in the great machine’s cogs? Whirring,

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The Monthlong Poem, 23 (54.)

February 23, 2020Chris King Leave a comment

If the universe be but a gem, in which fractal are we now persevering? What galactic snakes have wormed their way to power?

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The Monthlong Poem, 22 (53.)

February 22, 2020Chris King Leave a comment

to infinite facets by the play of light’s keen razors and time’s looping phases. A blue ripple stretches, reflecting endlessly. Stellar grin.

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The Monthlong Poem, 21 (52.)

February 22, 2020Chris King Leave a comment

Moonlight and streetlamps illumine the slow whorl of time, while hungry shadows stretch to encase them. The jewel sits, radiant, cut

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The Monthlong Poem, 20 (51.)

February 21, 2020Chris King Leave a comment

and slow. The great gravemaw yawns in silence, in chaos, in noise, in peace, and its measured mastication doesn’t cease.

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