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    Open Burning
    Open Burning
    Open Burning
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    Open Burning

    By Christopher McCurry

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    Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you Christopher McCurry's first full-length poetry collection. Reality and dreams mesh in Open Burning, detailing the fallout of a young couple's divorce. At times ellip

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAccents Publishing, LLC
    Release dateOct 15, 2020
    ISBN9781936628810
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      Open Burning - Christopher McCurry

      Copyright © 2020 by Christopher McCurry

      All rights reserved

      Printed in the United States of America

      Accents Publishing

      Editor: Katerina Stoykova

      Cover Illustration: abbraccio by Sigrid Thaler

      Graphics: upfromsumdirt

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2019957669

      ISBN: 978-1-936628-61-2

      ISBN: 978-1-936628-81-0 (e-book)

      First Edition

      Accents Publishing is an independent press for brilliant voices. For a catalog of current and upcoming titles, please visit us on the Web at

      www.accents-publishing.com

      CONTENTS

      The Epoch of Nothing Beyond Her

      A Bit About Rings

      Love

      The Man Who Was Thursday

      Two Arguments

      Your Personality

      Silent Urban Fringe Noir

      Most Mornings

      The Name of Your Nail Polish Is Free Spirit

      What to Expect

      Nostalgic American Period Drama With Korean Othering

      Girls

      Time Travel

      Tarantinoesque Societal Underbelly Soap Opera

      I Need to Catch You Up On Thirty Years of Subtext

      Where I Find Simple Math Useful

      Daughter

      Surreal Japanese Mumble-Core

      A Common Tale of Woe

      Drown Is a Verb

      Away From the Windows

      When You Talk to Me

      Anger

      How It Feels When Your Wife Leaves You

      French New Wave Influenced Latin American Apocalyptic …

      Signs of the Approaching Apocalypse

      The Road This Morning

      Open Burning

      Daughter

      Quirky Family Dramedy

      How It Feels When Your Wife Leaves You II

      Post Apocalyptic Romance with American Racism

      It Seems a Strange Time to Love

      How It Feels When Your Wife Leaves You III

      Wash This Body

      Because You Asked About the Line Between Happy and Sad …

      Dreams in Which I’m Kissing

      It Wouldn’t Be Fun If the Plane Didn’t Crash

      Most Nights

      PG-13 Superhero Movie

      Teaching My Daughter to Survive the Apocalypse

      There Won’t Be Any More Sonnets But

      Bone Brush

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      This one, this one’s for me.

      Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

      —Federico Fellini

      For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

      —Neil Gaiman, The Doll’s House

      THE EPOCH OF NOTHING BEYOND HER

      When she was born my mind went dark.

      I no longer dreamt my death.

      I craved my unanchored core.

      There was no end to the exhaustion,

      knowing my teeth were always my teeth

      never reabsorbed to gnaw on the hawk’s

      heart at the

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