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    Transitions of the Black Butterfly
    Transitions of the Black Butterfly
    Transitions of the Black Butterfly
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    Transitions of the Black Butterfly

    By Camille Whitsett

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateAug 4, 2017
    ISBN9781499052800
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      Transitions of the Black Butterfly - Camille Whitsett

      Copyright © 2014 by Camille Whitsett.

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2014913075

      ISBN:   Hardcover     978-1-4990-5317-3

                    Softcover       978-1-4990-5318-0

                    eBook             978-1-4990-5280-0

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Rev. date: 07/21/2014

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      Contents

      Dark Abyss

      Looking out at the horizon….

      No Just Do…

      Ultimate Truth Teller

      Tender Touch

      Beautiful Cage

      Intuitive Destiny

      Buried Treasure

      Coming Home

      Dusk Snack

      Treasures Recovered

      Silent Tears

      Exasperated Race

      Violet Love

      Roaring Rapids

      Change/Transform

      The Natural Map

      Crazy Intensity=Sanity

      Broken Illusions

      Black Butterfly

      Pussy for lease…with an option to buy

      Fairy Tale Love

      Reaching Arms

      Spiritual Catharsis

      Divine Delights

      Soulful Healing

      Sensually Alternate Transformation

      Forged Self

      Self made hell…..

      Double Crossed….

      Welcomed Death…

      Reunification

      Glacier

      The Hermit

      Blank Canvas

      Uncertainty is always Certain….

      Bird’s Song

      Gate Keeper

      Reflection

      Perpetrating Growth

      Barren Garden

      Precious Artifacts

      The Unveiling

      Molten Lava

      Avalanche

      TyTy’s Tea

      Infusion

      Subtle Splendor

      Dark Abyss

      Haunted faces look at me, familiarity grips my being. Seeing rotted flesh falling from her face, seeing death yet not smelling it. Reaching out to touch, she touches me back, finger to finger, palm to palm. Death smiling at me….grinning more like it.

      Laughter consumes the dark fires within, we rot together, bone on bone, melting flesh blending into eachother. Going deeper into the abyss of nothingness, through sockets which once were windows to the soul…now the empty sockets reveal the window of my soul.

      Looking deeper….she grins more…hearing laughter amongst the tears…my tears… Death, she comes closer, as if

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