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Lazarus

@lazarus-wist

poetry | flash fiction | thoughts | ephemera

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Lazarus
@lazarus-wist Jul 11, 2018, 4:34 PM UTC

'Ferrymen' - a Poem

the story carried on until it stopped, capped off the moment it had built in retrospect, might not have wrapped up quite like that, been lived in past the punchline as this telling is. three cheers f…

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Lazarus
@lazarus-wist Jul 9, 2018, 5:21 PM UTC

Why Are Kids So Scary?

Whether they be zombies, vampires, poltergeists, or demons, the popular monsters in the horror genre all have one thing in common. They are nothing like us. An other, beyond all reason or feeling, wh…

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Lazarus
@lazarus-wist Jul 5, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

'Shrunk' - a Short Poem

a drift of motes, adrift on the distinction that a gnat or pollen has between them, or the molecules they say exist i've never seen myself but are, on good authority, as real as these@lazarus-wistIma…

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Lazarus
@lazarus-wist Jul 4, 2018, 10:14 PM UTC

'The Diadem' - circa 1850 - an Antique Book Saved from the Scrap Heap

Of all the books that I have collected over the years, this one is without a doubt my absolute favourite. I've mentioned before that my place of work is a bookshop, a second hand one, and it's not un…

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Lazarus
@lazarus-wist Jul 2, 2018, 5:08 PM UTC

'Water Song' - a Poem

The great-grands tip their hats while passing one another at the door, collect their stamps, refrain from getting too attached or trying to converse the distance; edges of debate the new tongue mimic…

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Lazarus
@lazarus-wist Jun 29, 2018, 5:46 PM UTC

The Dull Predictability of Writer's Block

At the start of this week I sat down to write a poem about pencils. Not the most inspiring of subjects perhaps, but as they say, inspiration can be found anywhere just so long as you care to look. Wh…

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Lazarus
@lazarus-wist Jun 23, 2018, 8:14 PM UTC

'Diffuse' - a Micro-Poem

@lazarus-wistOriginal Words and Image.

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Lazarus
@lazarus-wist Jun 22, 2018, 7:36 PM UTC

'Hypnotics' - a Poem

and you’re back in the room, a clock tick, air sorts through the sound it carries on inside the ears, you tried but couldn’t quite forget you had them always on. what hope of self hypnosis can exist…

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Lazarus
@lazarus-wist Jun 21, 2018, 7:24 PM UTC

'Scavengers' - a Micro-Play

Lights go up to show NICK, on all fours, with a hammer in one hand. He has an ear pressed to the floor and appears to be listening intently. He lifts his head and gently taps the hammer on the floor…

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Lazarus
@lazarus-wist Jun 19, 2018, 9:20 PM UTC

'Tops and Tails' - a Short Poem

submerged suspicion, such subconscious thing or else it stalks behind me, literal the mountains blue, aquatic in the dimness evening brings and fishes, birds, float either way amongst the peaks, chan…

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