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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onAugust 28, 2022August 28, 2022Lamentations of a Prophet

Autumn

A passing flower of a passing season: red, blood rich, ferrous and complete, both floating and falling in a field of verdant compatriots. A forewarning,…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onJanuary 6, 2021January 6, 2021Lamentations of a Prophet

Glimpse

A viel thin, the crafting of kids’ misunderstandings, overstandings, caught in between. The shore was narrow, the people few, resolution stunted by a child’s purlieu…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onDecember 17, 2018To Matter, Me: EspousedLeave a comment on My Sphinx

My Sphinx

For mourning two today, three tonite. Where lies the cusp of death but within the burning night. Emboldened by dark, fashioned in flesh, the bell…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onSeptember 23, 2017Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on Sonnets for Dancer XXXIII

Sonnets for Dancer XXXIII

How you were, How we might, the sooner it starts, the later the night when that appregio descends, the final fish dive, that soothing bow rends the…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onSeptember 23, 2017September 23, 2017Slight, Sight, and Surfeit, To Matter, Me: EspousedLeave a comment on My I

My I

Tasting it lightly, feeling more slightly woozy. Soon we wander outside: look the stars are new, they’ve jumped askew and only the outline remains. Passing…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onJuly 28, 2017HypnosisLeave a comment on Trance

Trance

I went outside to sit still, staring somewhere staring still toward the sky: blue, cloudless, empty. Still I stared so long, so hard, staring at…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onMarch 22, 2017March 21, 2017All, Slight, Sight, and SurfeitLeave a comment on Lightness, sightless.

Lightness, sightless.

O! A lightness, sightless and bold: oh, its tightness in these moments foretold. How did I do? Who did we fare? This cataclysmic motion, caught…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onMarch 21, 2017March 21, 2017Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on Sonnets for Dancer XXXII

Sonnets for Dancer XXXII

Daring to speak, wanting to sneak in two words, yet without relief they come like fire into the night: not Fat. Not going. No, not…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onMarch 21, 2017Slight, Sight, and SurfeitLeave a comment on In Boxes

In Boxes

Moving through motions of a new moon casting out light from the evenings’ outlasting eclipses of the old dawn’s son, annealing the wounds and severing…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onFebruary 2, 2017Slight, Sight, and SurfeitLeave a comment on Responsibility

Responsibility

If blank verse well-travelled, then the puritans’ words would be holding us today instead of the modernists’ cry, the bards would be vacant and the…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onJuly 13, 2016March 21, 2017All, Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on Shabbat Queen

Shabbat Queen

One blinding bliss, one holy shroud, two binding prudent vows, we understand our other as knowledge does endow with kindness unrelenting, with mercy uncowed by…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onFebruary 3, 2016December 11, 2015All, Slight, Sight, and SurfeitLeave a comment on Upharsin

Upharsin

Signalling hours of calming begets, in quiet times, a louder redress as you walk out the room, trowel in hand to lay some new mortar,…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onFebruary 1, 2016December 11, 2015Slight, Sight, and Surfeit, St. PeterLeave a comment on The King Lives

The King Lives

I have been part of the Jupiterian tastes: the coming and going, the long-standing tests, the ease of mastery and the humility it gets too…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onJanuary 28, 2016December 11, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on XXXI. Sonnets for Dancer

XXXI. Sonnets for Dancer

Follow me not, for nor can you find these flowers of an unborn Spring; for dancers append to the Earthly hue the lights of lingering,…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onJanuary 26, 2016December 11, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on XXX. Sonnets for Dancer

XXX. Sonnets for Dancer

My dearest moment, still yet holding on air since ears seek wisdom and eyes, stairs spiraling upward to sniff out true tunes of the notes…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onJanuary 24, 2016December 11, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on XXIX. Sonnets for Dancer

XXIX. Sonnets for Dancer

Out you go, one way sown as pieceful flow threw out grown castings materially, literally or seriously, fake or venerally poisson peerlessly. My love you…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onJanuary 23, 2016December 11, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on XXVIII. Sonnets for Dancer

XXVIII. Sonnets for Dancer

Since documentation furthers, doth you decree, then this thought feathers truly only you, exiting me. Cents not discarded, and lenses not unbare, will add that…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onJanuary 21, 2016December 11, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on XXVII. Sonnets for Dancer

XXVII. Sonnets for Dancer

Daring, deep do you make the grade: neither a letter complete nor so inclined as to chase these clouds now, nor how they fade into…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onJanuary 5, 2016December 11, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on XIX. Sonnets for Dancer

XIX. Sonnets for Dancer

Seeking somnolence somewhere deep, unlight upon noises, scents incomplete as I ponder these depths, limitations meek in the bright of some cadence, soon to repeat…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onJanuary 3, 2016December 11, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on XVIII. Sonnets for Dancer

XVIII. Sonnets for Dancer

Hour upon hours will I wait for the day that my minutes are due, my second delay to reach new impediments more easily swayed than…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onJanuary 1, 2016December 11, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on XVII. Sonnets for Dancer

XVII. Sonnets for Dancer

Should my heart no longer throb, our breathing still, your being long for echoes gone, the thoughts abscond ‘fore the pas de deux en tournant:…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onDecember 30, 2015December 11, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on XVI. Sonnets for Dancer

XVI. Sonnets for Dancer

To count all these inches as they come tumbling down from miles above to the new spoken ground which I cannot set right, with which…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onDecember 28, 2015December 11, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on XV. Sonnets for Dancer

XV. Sonnets for Dancer

Count on these hours to pirouette and fall into places unmentioned, continuous, extolled as sunken cities’s tale, like soaking highways raw with tears from the…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onDecember 26, 2015December 11, 2015AllLeave a comment on XIV. Sonnets for Dancer

XIV. Sonnets for Dancer

It’s rare to light this late at night our burning casual evening rhyme encased in the walls of our tight little peaks sliding smooth into…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onDecember 24, 2015December 11, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on XIII. Sonnets for Dancer

XIII. Sonnets for Dancer

If wine makes us dizzy and head turns elapse as time takes us, busy and dead-tired, contracts our fate, our sun, our burning secret black…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onDecember 22, 2015December 11, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on XII. Sonnets for Dancer

XII. Sonnets for Dancer

I might tissue up before a missive decree to seal up the fates injuriously deemed to be my own, contagiously at the least, as no…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onDecember 20, 2015December 11, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on XI. Sonnets for Dancer

XI. Sonnets for Dancer

For each tooth you forgo under a laughy pillow, for every instance of blood familially thrown at that crack, the gush, your yielding toe nailed…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onDecember 10, 2015December 9, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on X. Sonnets of Dancer

X. Sonnets of Dancer

Smoothing glissades sweep away the days of bursting periwinkle kaleidoscopically sealing a brain of unfettered frays into knots that burst: radiculopathy of the longer limbs,…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onDecember 9, 2015December 9, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on IX. Sonnets for Dancer

IX. Sonnets for Dancer

I have always depended on the shyness of dangers to obscure moments of heavy-handed beleaguering of heavy-hearted heroines, unassailably strangers to anger or vitriol, my…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onDecember 8, 2015December 9, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on VIII. Sonnets for Dancer

VIII. Sonnets for Dancer

A princess, you, may be an offer to a prince since kisses due lay kings’ hands wrung ouvert en croix of blessings transfixed, seconds bursting…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onDecember 7, 2015December 9, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on VII. Sonnets for Dancer

VII. Sonnets for Dancer

Your attitude, indelible, speaks of a milder extreme that would launch our sleek, sweet dreamings alight upon those dusky harboured nights’ moon laid clean on…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onDecember 6, 2015December 18, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on VI. Sonnets for Dancer

VI. Sonnets for Dancer

Gleaning sheaves from your minute denials, I will harvest a cake for your returning sun. Floating ballon when our time rests dials over a future…

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by Jeremy David EvansPosted onDecember 5, 2015December 5, 2015Sonnets for Dancer (and further documentation)Leave a comment on V. Sonnets for Dancer

V. Sonnets for Dancer

Only that tracing finger along a sinuous ridge hints at the valley that you might flow within in some secret pleasure dome that your seams…

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