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| Dustin Pickering |
Dustin Pickering is founder of Transcendent Zero Press. He has contributed writing to
Huffington Post, Caf├й Dissensus Everyday, The Statesman (India), Journal of
Liberty and International Affairs, The Colorado Review, World Literature Today,
and several other publications. He placed in the top 100 out of 12,500 entries
for the erbacce prize in 2021, and was a finalist in Adelaide Literary
Journal’s first short fiction contest. He was longlisted for the Rahim Karim
World Prize in 2022 and given the honor of Knight of World Peace by the World
Peace Institute that same year. He hosts the popular interview series World
Inkers Network on YouTube.
Paper-Dream
I
pull the tree from its roots:
Paper-dream,
poet.
My
role in this process is synched.
Lips
to the stone.
I
kiss the place where I die.
Fruits
were fallen.
I
am not far from the casting steps
Where
laughter of the jackals
Frightens.
I
am under the bush,
Scared
of my scars.
This
paper killed a tree.
Birth
Blank
eyes offer hope—
The
child,
A
new chance to build worlds.
Do
not deny her the hope
She
feels in her heart.
Industry
profits, competitive urges
Satisfied
by ruthless comparisons.
Plant
your palms on the sea.
Leave
the moon to its perch in the night.
Fallen
fruit, weave the heaviest tree,
A
seedling is sapped of sparrows.
We
need more children.
Aesthetic
Art
plans the night
Like
a horoscope.
I
am the gifted creator
Of
stars and simplicity,
These
words will not save
Your
souls. A comet is flung from
The
dinosaur’s eyes. And from human
Skeletons
cling the keys.
Brave
ones, keep your eyes
On
the wistful passages between bones.
Shining
wind tunnels the image
Into
granted light,
An
archetype of beauty
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