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~Payback~Vengeance is an icy hand, creeping up your spine. Ain’t no sides to
it. It is a solitary and willful act, whichever edge of it finds you.
~WordWulf~
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~Quote: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~Anais Nin~
Quodlibet - Tom (WordWulf) Sternerttp://WORDWULF.com/QUODLIBET ~XV: Children/Song of Life~There is so much daughters and sons could teach parents before they grow away from knowledge, the why they are here, pigeonholed and block-dammed, encouraged to be all they can be, most of what they are not naturally. ~WordWulf~
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~No Beggar Simple~I saw him first one September morn, a rotund personage and yesterday,
picking aluminum cans from the trash. Today was different as I sat parked in
the lot eating lunch outside Wal~Mart, watching him, once more. His arm arched
out as if involved in a great sowing, A wing appeared from behind his hand then
I saw the gulls.
http://WORDWULF.com/BLOG ~Afterlight~Ain't no future in
your limp-ass game. It ends with the wrong victim, whose monsters run deeper, trailing,
tracking, stalking. Doing what you do, no victim in mind. Vengeance is a word, sure
as hell ain't no crime. Go on, tempt shadows, one at a time. ~WordWulf~
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~Evo~My brother spent over half his life in cages smaller than the corner of my
garage where I hold his ol’ Hawg and belongings. ~WordWulf~
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~Cradling~Endeavor to keep and/or make peace with those who have held you in
their laps. Comes a time, believe it or not, when there's no one like that left.
~WordWulf~
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~Fly Away Home~Trees on
firein the dying forest. Flames becomethe final chapterof
their fate and doom, birds’ wings ablazein the smoking towerof
afternoon.
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~Carrion Crow~because we evil it~worm it away deep~caw-cacophony-caw~searching
for the ringer in a city of bells~Her dark stockings, no underclothes~the
carrion crow leaves its dark issue in her belly hole~
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“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in
unkindness and hardness.” ~Mother Teresa~
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~Lead Poisoning~Nights, I listen
to my heart beat, float on its rhythm downriver, imagine what should have been and
simple goddam wasn’t. Miss it anyway, make the voice of my mother with my
spirit, talk to myself that way, like a dervish, like a dancer, perfection gone
terribly awry, ogres making off with pieces of us.
http://WORDWULF.com/PHILOSOPHY ~Authoritarian~Conquerors are
liars and tricksters. Peace is nonexistent, a gossamer dream, a banal and
overused stratagem.
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~Hell’s Kitchen~Take me back to the sound of Momma’s sighs, to the touch of Momma’s skin, to the water life insidewhere the innocent begin.
Tom Sterner is a writer. He lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado with wife Kathy. He has been published in numerous magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake. His internet pseudonym is WordWulf. A native of Colorado and proud father of five children and a stepdaughter, he also writes lyrics, sings and composes music with his sons. He is winner of the Marija Cerjak Award for Avant-Garde/Experimental Writing and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2006 and 2008. Published work includes two novels, Madman Chronicles: The Warrior and Momma’s Rain.