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Mending
by Paul Wadey, 17 October 2023 In the mind’s hidden chamber, love’s relic resides, A porcelain heart, fractured beneath sable tides. Deceive not yourself; every cardiac form bears a flaw, Weathered by love, irreversible as natural law. What, you ask, is the purpose of this agony? A terminus, or the advent of an alternate symphony?… Continue reading
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Howl
By Paul Wadey For Allan Ginsberg (1926 – 1997) I On nights when neon burns cold, A lone wolf’s cry rings out, all-consuming and malignant, Unchecked by conscience or morality’s fading light. The darkness implores: Why heed this rapacious ancestral greed? Below indifferent towers of concrete and glass, Miles of unlit streets sprawl. In this… Continue reading
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