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In This Book:
Fields of creme expanse
that undulate in slow, rolling hills
and taint purity
with the pickings of Cambodian mines.
Absent photons that seep
into matted hide
and chisel increments of
stopped clocks upon the wall.
You may pull that curtain aside,
feel as your palms travel smoothly
across entwined sugar cane,
breach the tangible
and plunge through barriers of rumination
into nights by lamplight,
scattered manuscripts
and the beaten anvil of a weary mind.
Here, you see life
from the slump of exasperation,
the stubble of neglect,
the freed sediment of characters cast away.
You see the world as it dulls
through the eyes of faded sunglasses,
hear the rhythmic drone
of punched keys
and the omnipresent
drip
drip
drip
as pores give way to showers.
What are these fields
and why do you feel pushed between them,
encapsulated like a 15th-century dissident
in an earthen holding cell?
What is this stagnant scent
that chokes your nasal cavity
until you yield under the weight
of papers unwritten?
In this book:
you will spin amidst the final nine months of a scholar
with reddened eyelids
who radiates the optimism of a decade;
the optimism of twelve tomes
just like you
that will soon snap
in echoing finality.
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Arthur Sadrian has been an avid writer and novelist since his crayon days. He has written over a dozen novels, novellas, novelettes and poetry books by his own initiative and has been published in literary magazines such as Beltway Quarterly, Down in the Dirt and Teen Ink. He has also served as a Junior Editor on Polyphony Lit, Chief Content Officer at a startup, Copy Editor of his school’s yearbook committee and is alumni of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio.