Doubt
He is a lugubrious bloodhound,
overlarge and looming
with his shadow
as he trails your heels,
occasionally stepping
in front of you,
tripping you up
with his ungainly paws,
fetching back to you
all of the
errors
you tossed aside,
or else
digging up your
failures
long buried
in those forgotten ossuaries
of regret and shame.
Pride attempts to leash him,
but whom is
jerking around
whom?
Legalese
I am still amazed
at how my father
can build a house from the
ground up,
as briskly as you please
and only infrequently faltering,
whereas I studied
words
and syntax
and import,
learning to brick together
clauses
to form meaning;
learning to deconstruct
meaning
within
technobabble and esoteric jargon.
It has yet to shelter me,
this skill set,
but I console myself with the
pretension
that a single clause
in a legal document
could take away my
house,
my
possessions,
my
life,
if I was not aware of its meaning.
But this is a cold comfort
as I lay among my
sheets of paper,
wary of the next unkind
wind
wandering my way.
Stephen Marshall. Writer, illustrator, layabout. Find him on Amazon, maybe. He has paperback and kindle books listed there. He also writes Supernatural Romance under the name S.C. Foster (because his fiancee pushed him to do so). He seems to have a knack for the Romance genre, much to his chagrin. Having pursued Children's literature he is particularly proud of his Children's novel series "Lost And Found", which begins with "Chloe Among The Clover", continues recently with "Stormy Within The Strawberry Patch" and may, in some future potentiality, culminate with "Candice Through The Picket Fence". These are novels for children (including his insistent nephew), but they are also written for adults who are children at heart. His short story collection, "The Eldritch Diaries", centers primarily upon Cosmic Horror and Body Horror, combining Lovecraft's mythos with the motifs of Sigmund Freud. His largest poetry collection, "Broken Crown Kings", contains over two hundred poems and two short novellas concerning the fleeting nature of the world and Man's place within it. Recently he has published a smaller book of poetry concerning Kentucky, Moonshine, and Ghosts called "Moonshine And Spirit Chasers". A much larger collection, entitled '"Nevermore" 99 Rhymes For $0.99' is also available. For those seeking supernatural and folklore, his collection "Weeping Cherry" is available also.
https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Marshall/e/B07536QKD9?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_fkmrnull_1&qid=1554215427&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
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