Mom, I just fell asleep as you were telling me my story. Listening to your voice and resting in your loving arms, I dreamed I entered a grotto. The walls were painted blue. In them were elaborate shrines; orange statues draped with garlanded petals; their bases strewn with red roses and yellow daffodils. It sounds [...]
Author Archives: Arturo Leon
Cyclic Existence
The Sun is smothered by Time, the cosmic iron snuffer. Energy is equal to mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. Ten billion years: a one followed by ten zeros; not such a significant number to a mind akin to Einstein’s, at a steadily increasing temperature. Earth is an important part of the [...]
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Guru Devotion
Sometimes I think I should have been a… I could have been the… -est. Stop! The master hits the disciple with a stick. The pain smarts for hours afterward. That thought should never have arisen. you double your error by lending it voice. But it occurred, the disciple whined. His tone betrayed his state of [...]
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Amulet against Fate
In the 90s any movie that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger was invested in heavily because Hollywood producers hoped it would be the next Terminator. In Last Action Hero we have a very campy script. A twelve-year-old orphan boy living in a rainy gray city finds happiness in watching movies. His favorite of all is (the character [...]
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Maya Babies
The red sun dropped in my dream. Hey did you see that? I asked one of the tourist bystanders on the promontory. It didn’t set. It FELL below the horizon. This is a very bad omen, according to interpretations. You can guess what it might mean… It is night now and I don’t know it [...]
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Contours of Haze
A bird soars with its white reflection up a river stream. Birds in the blue above burst out of a group of five. Stars explode into dead comet matter. Flights cross green banks – the reflective surface meets its edge and ends. The form becomes a shadow. A dark force caws. A chorus of crows [...]
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Revolutionary Inertia
The dove carried back the olive branch across the waters of Flood. Noah knew that land would be hard to starboard. The great god Poseidon tugged gently at the reigns of his horse, the porpoise, Leviathan. The creature in response averted its gills to swim in the directed way and gyrated its flippers to augment [...]
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Social Evolution
Water towers have sprung up in the centers of yards outside of building complexes where the poor live behind chipped painted walls and windows with bars over them, from which damp clothing hangs. Within a room, abundant with southern sunlight, a mirror in a corner reflects the faint green opening to the portal – the [...]
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Blackbird Arise
The Chinese do not want to buy the same things that we do. Yes, they frequent megastores, but also traditional markets. Housewives may purchase live hens and carry them home squawking by the feet, their daughters’ hands in theirs. They have no alternatives. The government is more openly war-minded. The fascists are publically amassing. They [...]
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Vanilla
Golden honey drips with thick viscosity. Lava-like, the ocean seethes for an entire eon in the space of a pending moment. The surface is augmenting. The flowers are growing cold as their colors. Their reasons for blossom are shade by shade taken away. The gold glows forever. The wet tongue, swollen from the stings it’s [...]
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