R.P. Verlaine – Dumpster Fire Press

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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Harry McNabb

The Hope-Crusher When you go from being a boy to being a young man, you start to find girls very interesting. I was thinking this as I walked around the Brick Gardens student apartments on Halloween. I had selected Brick Gardens before the semester because I thought that sharing an apartment with 3 other studentsContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Harry McNabb”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: R. P. Verlaine

The Accomplice and I This journey of crimes imagined yet incomplete we’ve chosen to call love dares us to improvise traversing the unknown taking terminal risks. Hope slandered to ruins between purloined kisses the strangers we corrupt until desire’s arson cools with passage of time and endless repetition. All counterfeit truths we exchange in language Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: R. P. Verlaine”