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Poetry || SubmissionsApplegate TrailBy Scott Malby a. The clearing *Nothing, not even the purest, most wrenching love, can escape this era's shadow: a cancer of the subject.* Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Fire and pain are the language that brings this world close, speaking in the broken dialect of life's countless betrayals, memoirs of places where each small battle lost adds to cumulative martyrdoms. In the grass signs of a massacre, flints that will strike no flesh, wagon ruts lead into the lazy shade. The tall trees their own accusing witness, here before freeways burned into the landscape. With the birth of something cruel comes a fragile pain that climbs as if the minds eye can only take in so much before it starts to wander, layering in textures its own reality. Alive, exposing old hurts, we lick our wounds as hot blood runs before us like red clouds. Trying not to get in our own way we see the why of things as a trap, needing to know the how of them instead. b. Each comes away from this clearing following the trail of their thoughts disposed to loose themselves behind recollections of their own experience. In the hot sun some prayed for a miracle that would save, making all things clear. But time pays no attention. Our tongues are cracked leather. It hurts to say things. c. As the river speaks only with itself headless in its foolish rush so shall it be with me. The flood has come. There is no explanation. We drown, murdered by what needs to be said. Scott Malby is really the pseudonym for Prospero Moses who lives in a state supported institution on the Oregon coast. His reading habits are eclectic. Right now he is reading Robinson Jeffers. More poems by Scott can be found here You can write to him here Today's Situation
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