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I have 103 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 61947 times and 37 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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John Silver

My stories

Rome

Dull centurion, genitor, I’m tired of your dire gates, The journeys East, the plums and dates, I can not fight your sunset war. And you, Cleopatra from New York,

Drunk

My head is spinning. Where are you, And where’s your sweetness now? When will I taste your fallen glow, Or kneel to kiss your hands of dew Which bear the morning light? No: never …

Looking at your old photo

Your face is there, your smile, your ways, Those lovely eyes that you have got, But not the passion, no, and not The searing tenderness which days And days saw burnt like matchsticks in

Aphrodite

First in a new collection called Exodus. Signals a break from my previous sonnets.
Cherry

Sunday Sonnet: Matrimony

Before mature emotions come to plant In me their sense or blindness, I will speak This thought (no doubt condemned within a week). I write this to my wife. Although I can’t

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