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I have 103 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 71804 times and 37 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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John Silver

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Tarot

By john_silver on Sun, 18 Apr 2010

The train is riding, rocking gently While it takes me to Bordeaux. Outside, the grasses slowly grow Beneath the mute age of each bent tree. The swelter’s melting into glue
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Eagle

By john_silver on Thu, 15 Apr 2010

The storm is past. Perhaps it was Too brief. The cloud that belts the forehead Of the eagle by the shore, said To be bird of Zeus, has Become an urn of sleep; it pours
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Dove

By john_silver on Sun, 04 Apr 2010

You before all others I Am loving with the silence of The secret hands which hold the dove. My bells stand still before the sky; I draw a single letter in The gravel on your path of choice:
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Saturday Sonnet: Meditation

By john_silver on Sat, 27 Mar 2010

It’s true, I am a mess in certain ways, Unstable in my tides of joy and grief, But I am satisfied in the belief I own the grain to feed the mill of days.
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Iphigenia

By john_silver on Fri, 26 Mar 2010

I want to know whose war it is That I have fought without a bruise, Without a sound, without the news Of where the breach or the defeat is, I want to hear the name, the cause
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