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The Waking Den · 2d ago

Poetic Spotlight: The Waking and Saginaw Song

Now today I have to say, our poetic guest star today holds a rather special place in my heart. Not because of any particular blood or spiritual connection between myself and the poet, no, but because of more territorial concerns. This week we’re striking the rich golden veins of the 20th century in
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The Waking Den · 4d ago

The Walk

It’s never enough to walk the walk. The walk springs heels heels spring teeth and the subtle lines– grace and poise– they sink their teeth into the eyes spun in lies routinely filed hook-line-sinker for the heart: flesh always leads astray.
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The Waking Den · 5d ago

To Fail: Merely Human

“Try again.  Fail again.  Fail better.”  ~Samuel Beckett Success may be the human imperative, but it is failure–and the way we deal with it–that makes us human. All people fail. Unless they have somehow managed to scare themselves up a genie and gotten themselves the perfect wish life (and how often
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The Waking Den · 1W ago

Drifting

It begins with the stars. Man spreads his wings and the stars are all that consumes. Blue fire–they taste the ashes and name them future as they step into the black expanse. It begins with the warmth. The floor is around and under and in them, and the soil even deeper still, and the taste [...]
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The Waking Den · 1W ago

Like a Rock

I would rest my faith against your breast but human pace is never still you’d bear me out into the glass shattering with smiles and discontent solitude’s press, its lonely words –straight like a rock, to malcontent.
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The Waking Den · 1W ago

Pollen

The world is filled with pollen– a bloom of youth cast to wilderness upon the breeze and berthed within the roots of older things, immovable objects time withered for the show. No highway through-way, accumulations whiten the base without ever touching soil, or soul– light, oh god, where is the ligh
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The Waking Den · 1W ago

Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 2012: Extended Deadline: May 31

Reblogged from Creative Writing Contests: **IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to a web hosting problem that has now been resolved, we have extended our 2012 deadline to May 31, 2012. This applies to our 2012 competition only. $2,500 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Writers of short fic
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The Waking Den · 1W ago

The Strength of Family

On the heels of Mother’s Day, it seems like an agreeable topic, no? Done right, there is no greater foundation and no greater strength than the family… “Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing
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The Waking Den · 2W ago

Lively Life Updates and Shiny Reviews

Imagine me for a moment, if you would, as that little rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. I’m not late for any date, but I’m certainly at that feverish level of busy. If I bounce around and spring off anymore walls my head just may explode. Not literally, of course. I’m probably exagerrating. Hopefully
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The Waking Den · 2W ago

Fallow Lands

Behold the salted land of plenty, raped and pillaged by its own devoted grace now stalked by storied banshee no lines by which to draw a brace.   What bounty once divined, what passion might have lain now blinded and maligned before the dusty plow could feign.   We are cracked callow and divinely sa
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