Mark Heathcote

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I have 597 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 431992 times and 9 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Mark Heathcote

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So pale and hurtfully prissy

Why does she come shadow crawling up my spine. Doesn’t she realize I’ve served a necromancer’s time? Melancholy is a thistle a rose garland in black holy

She put a rind around the world

She put a rind around the world And set it like a flower Then when it grew her dust run through... Like a rainbow after a shower. She put a rind around the world And beheld her oceans pearl

All long' the reign of absorption

Footprints’ of people now unforeseen’ Travelling cogent in one direction, Such is the felicity the raiment of a dream. Each death-nail step a predestination,

A poet’s epitaph

No joy is here to stroke away the hours That love has bent with her mortal powers So veil not the scaring in your solace-eyes For this marks well the habitual pages,

If beauty could let her love to me

If beauty could let' her love to me' Like the white buds on a magnolia tree What a nature in my soul there would be What a freedom in my breast for thee Could I in truth set wing flung free...

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