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Narcissus

Narcissus Once upon a timelessness after a re-occurring dream awoke wired and restless with a relentless curiosity. An unlikely poster child creature of terrible beauty freed from its muted haze fiery in spirit its kaleidoscopic variations protected with a cloak of sea urchin spines. shipwrecked and rejected The shadow bleeds into the sea old and uncharted. Dreamlike oddities haunt the un healed fractures the barnacled ghosts. Hidden in the wing the mythical siren sings evolving in splendid isolation. A pause in the rhythm agony frozen in a time. When time doesn't matter it's like being suspended in space orbited by electric blue . A mirror in the sky for reflection but these eyes are blind the dark and the light are joining hands without destroying the larger balance. Once mute mouths trying to speak the truth of the unsettling similarities between the saviors and the martyrs. Trying to connect criminal to crime scene is an impossibility within the city of an urban purgatory like a museum stripped of its artifacts. A soul transforms a falling star into a polished stone written on it: "man is condemned to be free" within the tapestry of the labyrinthine dream of a reality of prisms and polarized light" looking closer we see only our own reflection because in the faces of our Gods the sun only bows to Narcissus.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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