Through The Blessing And The Benediction
· REMINGTON GRAVES ·
Jubilation had choked her at the jugular, the iconoclast within simmered, and with calamitous calm, she allowed the raw rubbing of the…
Jubilation had choked her at the jugular, the iconoclast within simmered, and with calamitous calm, she allowed the raw rubbing of the…
We were wrestling amid wraiths, wandering woefully through overlapping shadows, arduously against the heaving breasts of time. I tasted fear as it…
“I’ve seen you before, haven’t I”? ”I don’t believe—“ He began to mutter like a mangled mutt as an automobile drove by splashing…
All hail the poet laureate lascivious no longer, laughing through his treacherous tears, raising his cowardly countenance to the heavens feigning a cinematic fortitude as heavy ivory keys stomp then sprinkle lightly from the hands of Satie. Amber, orange, brown, grey, and a watercolor smudge of said hues stroke violently across the path atop the…
The fire roared furtively and then sighed, feeding the men a hellish heat as they trembled in their soaking slumber sweat amid thick and tattered blankets—dusty, bloody fingernails digging into hard soil, aching toes twisted and lashing, throated gurgles and gnawing of tongues—silent begging muted screams. Tangled soaring trees insidiously standing afar and reaching for…
“What’ll it be, friend?” ”Three fingers of Fiddich—straight.” ”Sure thing, stranger. Say, you ain’t from around here are you?” he said proudly pouring after reaching from the plenitude of liters and pints. ”No,” he replied rapidly. ”You know, pal, I got a couple of girls just down the road who got hips, slips and fingertips…
The dissonance with its diaphanous dialect, summoned the dormant menace no longer dreaming, to rise from a bed of warm and wet yellow, orange and brown large leaves. Pine needles permeated throughout a silent congregation of soaring giants—barked skin, and still with leafless limbs. His naked and trembling body, glistened with sweat and reflected the…
“Shall we?” “I’m not sure, I follow, Dad.” “Well, let’s see. You sneak out the window at all hours of the night, I caught you smoking, your grades are deteriorating, and that hair cut is a goddamn disaster. Not to mention, your principal called me again. Another meeting. Something about you cutting someone. It’s…
What trite trembling did negate thy tender troubles? What agony did beckon again and again from surreptitious depths, to assuage the flooding of present regrets, to hammer furiously at unknown desires—yearnings passively vapid and banal. Illicited and vacuous, ignominous the occultation of your hunger for him…for he breathes into your branches—the blazing breath of summer…
Like slumbering blurring lions, the baking blonde hills below had closed their eyes, and from atop a black steed he leaned to the right to give his aching back a break. Squeaking gloves carrying numb, hot fingers waved in warmheartedly into the mare’s mane and for a moment, squeezed and pulled; she sighed and neighed,…