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Tag: melancholy

“Skate Country” by Robin Wyatt Dunn
Fiction

“Skate Country” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

February 12, 2024March 25, 20241

“…she finds her balance again, inside her head, atop the roller skates.” excerpt from Skate Country by Robin Wyatt Dunn #MetaworkerMonday #TheMetaworker

“Last Nights, Dreaming” by Lucia Owen
Poetry

“Last Nights, Dreaming” by Lucia Owen

December 11, 2023December 11, 20230

“Here’s where I was those last nights, / twisting on that rack / of a recliner next to your bed” – excerpt from “Last Nights, Dreaming” by Lucia Owen #TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday

The Beach by Daniel Brennan
Poetry

The Beach by Daniel Brennan

November 20, 2023March 4, 20250

“The beach is sinking. / It’s a sigh. It’s the lack of you and I, pulling like the tide / against its warm face.” – excerpt from “The Beach” by Daniel Brennan @dannyjbrennan #TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday

“some other nights” by Mallika Bhaumik
Poetry

“some other nights” by Mallika Bhaumik

May 27, 2019August 19, 20202

Nights are essays in loneliness words scrawled in the darknone to be retrieved, I stretch on the bed; disheveled like my hair,twinning with the night.My …

“Tungsten Bulbs” by Sayan Aich Bhowmik
Poetry

“Tungsten Bulbs” by Sayan Aich Bhowmik

April 15, 2019September 1, 20200

I have always wondered About the mood, Inside houses that dress themselves In yellow tungsten bulbs, Once evening descends Like children running down the stairs. …

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