ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
I'm a third-year student at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, studying English as an evolving language, and its compositional forms and stylistic periods. Writing as a kind of practice, allows the inner voice to resonate more loudly than all the other voices I hear in my life every day, so for me it is a kind of meditation. It is a way of harnessing pain and refashioning it to rationalize my present identity, and I do that by giving it physical structure, salience. But pain is only the half of it. It is also an outlet of positivity. No pain is deeper than the potentiality of all the joy that can dig pain out of the mind and blow it to the wind. [December 2002]
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (1) Rhythms Of Pi (Poetry) This one's totally up to the reader's interpretation...I'd rather not say anything about it. I'm interested in others' opinions more than my own. [367 words] [Erotic]
A Space Dark Matter
Behold, I rot.
But like spiring lightning,
memories of her flash before my dying eyes,
Hot, radiant, white,
And I scarce can control them,
Nor do I want to.
I beseech them to ease my pain.
Her whispers, her songs, her laughter,
echo inside my ears,
All saying "I love you", "I love you",
A symphony of sweetness,
Cherishable, imperishable,
Even in this most
Angst-ridden state of mine.
I have made a place for her within,
And it is the grandest place in my gloomy heart,
A filament of fire so big and bright
that all the darkness that cradles the universe
Could not extinguish it.
I have made a heaven of hell with her power, that
No man or god can put asunder.
It is a space for dancing.
It is a space for healing.
It is a place to hold on to,
As the unknown comes for me.
READER'S REVIEWS (6) DISCLAIMER: STORYMANIA DOES NOT PROVIDE AND IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR REVIEWS. ALL REVIEWS ARE PROVIDED BY NON-ASSOCIATED VISITORS, REGARDLESS OF THE WAY THEY CALL THEMSELVES.
"This is incredibly compelling ... you have a quite a way with words and rhythm. Especially liked this line "A filament of fire so big and bright that all the darkness that cradles the universe could not extinguish it." Very good ... " -- Judith Goff.
"Well, well ... after reviewing this piece, I read your bio, does your name happen to be Cole? If so, I should change my review of your work ... but I won't" -- Judith Goff.
"I like it. It reminds me a lot of what I like to write. No need for rhyming. It spins it's way through in it's own rhythm." -- R. Bennett Okerstrom.
"lol!!!!! Cole you can be a real jerk but your writing is brilliant. I cant, I wont take that away from you. Hope you dont attack my writing again and I promise not to attack you. Lets just call a truce and write what we feel. Isnt that what its all about anyway? " -- Michelle.
"Indeed Michelle. I apologize about before. It would make for a great story though...a writer whose insecurity about his work, and whose jealousy of others' work, makes him angry to the point of performing the part of the belligerant critic. If you won't write it Michelle, I will. : )" -- Dark Matter, Amherst, MA, USA.
"I dont think I can meet your standards but I will gladly go in as a team effort with you. Thanks for the apology...it meant a lot." -- Michelle.
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