BlogHide Resteemscrowkeep (30)in poem • 7 years agoLyric - 15Old man Unable. Pestered by Superfluous. Organs That song Should persist He insists Is Preposterous. #poem #poetrycrowkeep (30)in fiction • 7 years agoSerial Storytelling, in Paragraph Proportions - Fragment 13Umin shook his woolly head to clear out the lingering rattle in his brain-box, before gingerly padding forward. The faint fire-gleam grew achingly in breadth and height. No longer a mere…crowkeep (30)in steemgigs • 7 years agoEditorial ServicesSteemit continues to burgeon, attracting users from all around the globe. Many of these users have inspiring ideas. But they often struggle to express their work, as non-native English…crowkeep (30)in fiction • 7 years agoSerial Storytelling, in Paragraph Proportions - Fragment 12The expanse above an inky unknowable depth, the way forward narrow. Umin spreads his arms wide and warily. Soon finding the rough-smooth, like glass resolved once and hardened again, walls with…crowkeep (30)in fiction • 7 years agoSerial Storytelling, in Paragraph Proportions - Fragment 11I want him Father. Let me… The half-spaces between waking and drifting where things sonorous and frightful came to murmur. Hours compressed. Umin slept. Oh, the chime is ringling. Oh...…crowkeep (30)in poem • 7 years agoLyric - 14Sonorousness is Salt. The weight of Despond Upon the Neck of a Brooding Cello. #poem #poetrycrowkeep (30)in poem • 8 years agoLyric - 13Brooding Plow-dung autumn Dryness of Sphagnum. Dream of Desert-tongues Ginger-sweet Crease of Star-anise. A Bedouin Coffee-service. #poem #poetrycrowkeep (30)in poem • 8 years agoLyric - 12Bestir me. The alchemy Of aliphatic Amines. Seminal Spermidine Unwinds. Cerement-string Putrescine. #poem #poetry #biochemistrycrowkeep (30)in fiction • 8 years agoSerial Storytelling, in Paragraph Proportions - Fragment 10Sing-song mockery. Close now, little fingers like gleaming bloodless alabaster curled through the sandy-russet chain-links of his prison. Chin perched playfully on a long cross-bar in the manner…crowkeep (30)in fiction • 8 years agoSerial Storytelling, in Paragraph Proportions - Fragment 9Something small and shapeless twists out of the dark, falling near to hand with a sick softness. A blot of blackness against the black. Oh, sweet. A little scantle of rough meat. Oh, wrapped in a…crowkeep (30)in poem • 8 years agoLyric - 11A thigh Past. Still linger in Pillow-rinds. As musk-mellow Heat. #poem #poetrycrowkeep (30)in fiction • 8 years agoSerial Storytelling, in Paragraph Proportions - Fragment 8Eyes, wide and glistering like pools of cracked glass in the tepid light of a single sorry lamp. Taunting with a tin-hollow laughter as it spun away into the deepness. Leaving him struggling between…crowkeep (30)in fiction • 8 years agoSerial Storytelling, in Paragraph Proportions - Fragment 7Once it came wearing red. Incarnadine like freshly spilled heart-blood, still warm from the wound. Most often it moved here and there in flowing cloth of silken coal. In black cord, bitumen…crowkeep (30)in poem • 8 years agoLyric - 10Little-boy. With finger-breadth Sores. Sees Scores of Coal-dusk Pendulous Portal-doors. Everywhere. #poem #poetrycrowkeep (30)in poem • 8 years agoLyric - 9We begin. With Kaolin. The brooding Belly of the Coal-fire Kiln. Kneading, plying A baser thing Into perfuméd Pastel Porcelain. #poem #poetrycrowkeep (30)in fiction • 8 years agoSerial Storytelling, in Paragraph Proportions - Fragment 6Instead he moves to face the wall and tepid trickle of water, ruefully gnawing at the crust of his last black-seed cake. Trying to remember how many days had receded since his descent into the…crowkeep (30)in fiction • 8 years agoSerial Storytelling, in Paragraph Proportions - Fragment 5Oh, Little Basket, Oh, In a Little Orchard, My Little Petal. Oh, in a Little Basket, The Little Pin-Man a Little Hen He Poached... Another pause and a stillness belied only by the sifting…crowkeep (30)in poem • 8 years agoLyric - 8Potter's whisps. Nameless-unknowing Things Burnt to Crackling. This glistering Cinching The sanity Of sand-glass. #poem #poetrycrowkeep (30)in poem • 8 years agoLyric - 7A kernel of Rue. Bitter-leaf Curls and licks At the tips And tears of My little Eternity. #poem #poetrycrowkeep (30)in fiction • 8 years agoSerial Storytelling, in Paragraph Proportions - Fragment 4Do you like lullabies? She taught me one, or two... There follows a breath, a pause like poison honey waiting to drip slow from the cusp of a spoon. Its voice is sweet and spare. Both queerly…