Parker Owens
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I thank you for your kindness in reading this story, and for your responses to it. So much regret enveloped each character, yet I hope that some ray of light - perhaps through Ed’s invitation - can seep through to each of them. May your new year be happy!
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This has been a highly engaging and engrossing story. There are many different issues, story lines and plot developments to follow, not least of which are the fates of great grandsons of Dom DeLuca. That they might learn with and from Oli and his rescued brothers will be unquestionably life changing. Wherever the story-light shines next will be fascinating.
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I distantly remember air-raid and fallout drills in grade 1; even then, nobody seriously believed the worst would happen. In this particular instance, a second grader dialed for emergency response. All too frequently, 200 times a year, the worst happens. So many feel powerless to change any of this, and too many of us feel like potential targets. More firearms will not make us less so, in my opinion. Thanks for reading and hearing my voice.
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Your responses from your legislators are akin to mine. Gun violence and gun death is so commonplace, that it seems to defy discussion. All I can hope is that if enough of us say aloud how it makes us feel, how it will move us to vote, then perhaps it’s worth all of us writing prose or poetry about it. Thanks for your comments.
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How is it that murder presented itself as a viable course of action in this case? What convinces a person of that? Thanks very much for reading and for your comments.
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Thanks for reading this. Your comments echo my cry of frustration. We cannot seem to agree on solutions, yet shouting and hand-wringing don’t seem to help, either.
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An Old Story Another school shooting, and again the screams and fear echo down the tiled hallways, rattling the lockers of the collective mind as little children learn what murder means firsthand; And then the media tumult thunders, their lights blind us; the noise of them with stories about this story makes us deaf to the cries of the children who cower under desks or in their homes, when all they really wanted
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I enjoyed reading this modern take on what became of Hell. I can’t help but think about Infernal Industries’ loss of customer interest occurring in parallel with a discernible loss of interest and belief in both Hell and Heaven. Does Infernal Industries rely on belief in order to attract customers? And I couldn’t help wondering what a modern day Dante would have noted as torture for modern sinners. It was most entertaining to read.
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Thank you for taking time to read this. I appreciate your encouragement.
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It still stirs the heart and makes me smile. Thanks a million, Gary.
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I’m glad you liked the use of subjunctive here; in searching for a title, it seemed most apt. Indeed, too many plans like this have come to nought, or appear distinctly unlikely. Thanks very much for reading, and for your response.
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I’m glad you could relate to this poem. It was written for a special friend I’ve not seen in a long time. Thanks again!
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Subjunctive Perhaps if I’d been born a different man I’d make a proposition rude and hope that you might fall in with my plan, suggestions hardly misconstrued, but ending on the sofa or divan with each of us embraced, all barriers effaced. Would that the peaceful, late day sun had traced across our resting frames to span the arms I want to hold us waist to waist in light appealing to Gauguin, while we exquisite, haunting k
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Poor Liam, trapped in a circuit of anxiety, a spiral of worry that can only land him in a great, cold wet swamp of depression. I can only hope that Mark will find him.
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Thank you for these gentle poems of memory and recollection.
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Thanks so much both for reading and for your response. I can only hope that you and many of us will have conversations about the small signs of defiance we see and plant around us every day.
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We seem indeed bereft of heroes in this moment. That last line you speak of reflects the fear I have for myself and for many. Thanks again.
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Art may soothe, inspire, resist and defy. It helps to write, still more it helps to know one is not alone. Thanks for reading, and for your encouraging words.
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I’m glad Defiance spoke to you. We will need to be defiant together for some time to come.
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Thank you. I’m glad you read them. I hope someone feels they make a difference.
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You’re most welcome. I’m grateful you read and reacted to these, and that they resonated with you.
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A skyscraper here refers to the poetry form, rather than an actual building. The crazed, cruel, creatures are those who would prey upon us for their own advantage. I’m glad that you found these interesting. Thank you very much for reading and commenting.
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Like you, I feel that mist and watch the darkness falling with fear for what the night will bring. Defiance is the only hope I still have.
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Descent Night descends and all that was in light is suddenly swallowed up in shadow, smothered and submerged in starless uncertainty where crazed, cruel creatures lie in wait to feast upon the bones of rainbows. Darkness It’s so hard to resist the grey mist that with subtle silent fingers creeps and shrouds unwary spirits in cold cheerlessness to numb, to choke, to douse with despair the fragile fla
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It’s good to see more of Liam’s life evolving. Why was that woman staring? It’s probably nothing, but one never fully knows. I can’t imagine Liam wanting to leave Ed behind. Ed seems to be able to help Liam get a better grip on the world. They’re stronger together.
