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    The Surrealist Dominant
    The Surrealist Dominant
    The Surrealist Dominant
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    The Surrealist Dominant

    By Oliver Moorhe

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    Decoherence: am I alive or dead without Her? Who am I without Her? My journey, my journey is such that the question drives me! Defines me! To what cross shall I bind my flesh to search, to seek? Will its weight push wearied foot into soil, on to sail to what horizon? My dusk, my dawn lit to illuminate this ragged, flawed child reaching for Her. Mother! Sometimes Mother, equally flawed. Neglectful. Angry. Distant. Hers is the distorted visage refracted from the mirror cracked by my own bloodied hand. It takes moments to realize the webbed image reflected is my own. Neglectful. Angry. Distant. Shamed. Child. Mother! She forgives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNewman Springs Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateMay 31, 2022
    ISBN9781638815266
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      The Surrealist Dominant - Oliver Moorhe

      The Surrealist Dominant

      Oliver Moorhe

      Copyright © 2022 Oliver Moorhe

      All rights reserved

      First Edition

      NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

      320 Broad Street

      Red Bank, NJ 07701

      First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2022

      Cover Design by Newman Springs Art Department

      ISBN 978-1-63881-525-9 (Paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-63881-526-6 (Digital)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Contents

      Pleading with the Damned

      No Aim to Divorce

      Tyler’s Cross

      Seeing as Catherine Morse

      Ambient Creatures

      Soft Gravity

      The Dominant Surrealist

      116322

      Frying Eggs with Vitamin Powder on a Horizontal Plane

      My Sun Ain’t Yours

      Good State Garden

      Sad Shepherds

      Sans the David

      Wind versus Fire

      Salamanders at My Feet

      Coin of Sparrows

      Dressing Room

      What the Devil Knew

      Good Failure

      Isolated Showers

      Templication

      The Horizon in the Distance

      Sylvio Becomes Berlin

      Tangle Men

      Boys Playing War

      Them What Was

      24-Hour Christ

      Nature of Evil

      Ignitor

      Fisherman on Calm Seas Green

      Blue Causes

      Methadone with My Rice and Wine

      Harsh Gentleman

      Falling Over Peter’s Feet

      City of Hitarak

      Citizen Becka Evolved

      Algae Bloom

      Saint Bee of Roseland

      Sword

      Copperhead with Lime

      Staple

      Fishing in a Dried Lake Bed

      Decoding Heaven

      Sketch Pad

      Judges Digested

      Soup

      The Quiet Watchman on the East Wall

      The Leaves of Fall’s Grace

      A Pearl at the Bottom of an Empty Wineglass

      The Age of Light

      The Angel of Light Falls

      That Hostile Minority Sitting by Himself on the Train

      Walking Blinded into Their Bright Sun

      Eastern Smoke

      One of Many Great

      One of Many Great Remixes

      To Seek Grace in That Last of Moments

      To Maria. You kept the faith even as I lost mine.

      Pleading with the Damned

      I am no one.

      He is no one.

      Some damned fool’s ideology demands my blood to satiate his faith, his little god!

      Some damned fool collects a soul for every bullet loosed.

      Some damned fool sends me to his god’s hell because I am not of his faith!

      Some damned fool crushes me under his foot because his country has been wronged!

      Some damned fool chastises me because my women have a voice and a choice!

      Some damned fool cuts my brother down to become an ideologue martyred!

      He is no one.

      I am no one.

      And some damned fool becomes a Swiss saint damned.

      No Aim to Divorce

      Mr. Carlson speaks in tongues but says only God knows what he is saying.

      Mr. Carlson is a loving Christian but hates homosexuals.

      Mr. Carlson has a kind, charitable heart but only feels heaven is for Christians.

      Mr. Carlson beats himself when he is wrong.

      Mr. Carlson clubs us when we is wrong.

      Mr. Carlson can’t change the channel if God is mentioned.

      Mr. Carlson seems to see the devil everywhere when no one else can.

      Mr. Carlson sees the devil in every movie.

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