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• Tiny Raptures

  Perhaps tiny raptures,
  unfit for mortal eyes,
  can culminate into miracles
  through which human senses are defied

  April 15, 2025

  creative writing, poetry, short

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• Anticipation

  There is no drug quite like
  anticipation.
  
  Time slows to a crawl —
  Your heart doesn’t get the memo.

  Thoughts race
  time drags onward
  your stomach is full
  of dread
  and excitement
  Co-existing there until

  DING

  The bread is done,
  Or the company has arrived
  and All of those feelings you felt before
  Cease to exist
  
  That relief and the forgetting
  are The pay off for your patience
  
  the outcome itself
  Good or bad
  does not matter;
  
  The satisfaction of surviving anticipation is a reward of its own.
  

  February 24, 2025

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• 180 Leagues Under The Sea

  

  The first time I saw the sea
  I was so naive.

  Still spotless, in a sense.
  Not pure, not poised
  but innocent of life’s depth.

  Like that sea, off the Long Island pier,
  choppy and menacing.

  December of my twenty second year
  Newly enthralled, missing someone
  who would take all that I had.

  Now I am missing me.
  
  I dance with her on dark sandy dunes
  that overlook
  the sea of despair that he left me with.

  Hoping that summer brings some relief,
  calmer waters through which I can see
  beyond the depths
  to that day I first felt ocean spray

  Find my essence, so long spent
  trapped under one hundred and eighty leagues of resentment
  So that I may become a vessel for you

  She has to be below those waves.
  If not, I cannot be certain
  that she is anywhere at all.

  February 12, 2025

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