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Napowrimo 2020 day 7- No Trespassers Allowed
As one, blades of grass sharpen,
becoming fields of swaying razors.
Napowrimo 2020 day 6- Symmetry
Marigolds bloom geometrically,
thriving under this square sun.
Dodecagon pupils dilate.
Napowrimo 2020 day 5 - Simulated
Seemingly infinite, the night sky
is the most consistent falsehood.
The moon is nothing more than
a hologram, the stars just dead
pixels in the screen constructed
millennia ago to keep us placid.
Reality is narrated to us daily.
Your thoughts are not your own.
You are code blind, lost within
a procedurally generated lie.
Look to the glitches. The single
side of the moon, the vanishing
stars, memories of new places.
Napowrimo 2020 Day 4- Erosion
On this day, a room darkened by a flash,
unfamiliar faces are made abstract by
developing camera technology. One
is probably mine, now a stranger.
Napowrimo 2020 Day 3 - Peas
It's still magic.
The emergence
of green from
damp soil, adder
head coiling up,
before unfurling,
saluting the sun.
NaPowriMo 2020 Day 2 - 'I only went to a psychic for an ego boost'
Lost to the comfort of burnt sage
and bergamot, I do not remember
entering or paying so I arrive
to myself already sat in silks.
NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 1- The People
We the spin, the shimmer.
We the sway, the light,
the contagion and the cure
We the anointing and
sometimes the penance.
Free Books
I've made a couple of my self published books free to download.
There's Amber Stars: One Night of Stories, which is my first book of linked stories and Remain Vigilant which is two one act plays in the same world. Lost in April Fog, my Napowrimo poems from 2018 was free before but I've offered direct links and removed the need to go through the shop. All are in PDF, Mobi (for Kindles) and ePub (for everything else).
All the books have now been changed to Creative Commons licences so feel free to distribute and remix them if you so wish.
I've seen a few people offer up free books during the pandemic. I've wanted to do this for a little while, so this was the prompting I needed. They will all remain free after as well, this isn't a limited time thing.
Hope you enjoy.
The Oracle
Forgive me, I have lost my lexicon
of the future. Now I search the tangled
entropy of brambles and bindweed.
Nothing useful emerges, only woodlice.
Quick thoughts on editing
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