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by Bruce McRae Autumn’s meiosis, summer in algor mortis,cooling perceptibly, thermodynamics’ second law in gear.Post equinox attrition and the shift down into stasis.Because you can’t just keep on living.It would become deathly dull, you’d start to smell,immortality hinting at ‘senescent indignities’,whichever side of death’s door you’re standing on,whether heavenbound or pickled in medicinal brine. ThisContinue reading “Children of Chaos”

by Bruce McRae The usual nightmares and daydreams…Hearing about a man who named his childrenafter seasons and days of the week.Calling Winter home from the fields.Warning Tuesday about the consequences of bad decisions.Sending Saturday in search of Spring. What affect, naming your offspring Jupiter Junebugor Moonbeam or Meadow McMeadow?Traffic cops eyeballing your license without mercy.CoevalsContinue reading “Name Sake”

by Bruce McRae From the White House to the outhouse.From the wasteland to the Holy Land,and all points in between.Behind the fugitive moon, defying symmetry.On a path through the dappled forest,leading from the whorehouse to the slaughterhouse,blood on our shoes and in our eyes,blood under our fingernails,its red veil shadowing our faceswhile the angels comeContinue reading “Red Veil”

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