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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Maksym Beshlei

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Duane Vorhees

WHEN THEY LOVE US NOT   When the ones we want to love us   leave no doubt they’ve left us behind,   should we loll around, scavengers   of leftovers lying around?   Or should we collate our losses   like alarmed lieutenants behind   the lines, wannabe avengers   of honor lost onContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Duane Vorhees”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: James Maj

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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Duane Vorhees

EXCERPTS FROM ABELARD’S NOTEBOOKS I knew words never demonstrate the truth in things, they are jut sounds we use for our own convenience, but when I chose my name with careful confusion, showing off by punning in Latin, German, and Hebrew to connote and conflate my noble ability’s (hevel‘s) dance (ballare) with steadfast vanity (hevel again)Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Duane Vorhees”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Tiberius Galloway

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Duane Vorhees

MALPRACTICE Though ambulances full of years have passed I’m dependent on drugs, crutches, and slings. My condition continues to get worse. I still carry some fragments of our past. Plagued by the bad, I forget our good things. Time was my doctor, Amnesia my nurse. DOUBLING THROUGH the eating and the eaten the rower andContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Duane Vorhees”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Danny D. Ford

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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Jonathan Bracker

Techniques Used In Therapy Now that he no longer goes To therapists, Kenneth  Has counted up and found  His totaled thirteen. Of these, five had – after he was hooked, Or nearly so – asked him a question Which, when first he heard it, surprised:  “What are you getting from your misery?” It took himContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Jonathan Bracker”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Shane Allison

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Duane Vorhees

HOPE, LOVE, GOD We Meat Creatures are easily damaged, prone to age and spoilage. Not understanding our habitat or each other or ourselves, we survive by hiding from fact. Reason by emotion is compromised, honor by opportunity. We are content to admire our meat in those mirrors we devised to fool us into belief inContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Duane Vorhees”