poems 2018-2020.
142pgs.
this little book was written with burning lungs. it's a desperate attempt to navigate. to survive. to find an opening up at surface. to breathe...
it speaks of the most enormous journey. the most profound & perilous adventure a man can make. is forced to take. for no one ever chooses it:
it's the long dark night of the soul.
it can take any shape or event. look any way or be any thing to any one.
sometimes it really is just one long dark night. other times it can last for years.
sometimes you don't even know you're in it, but somehow you also realize the stakes are beyond high: the stakes are yourself.
in the end, it's the only war there really is: the battle man makes against himself for his own soul.
this little book tells the narrative of my few-year swoop down into the Belly of that Cosmic Whale, my time in the sludge & darkness of the human heart as it overlapped with the history-changing event of life being shut down & strangled by an invisible virus.
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includes poems from the two handmade books: "Archetype Degenerate" and "The Night I Drank The Sky", plus two other sections -- "Portrait of A Downswing" : (a whole other chunk of degenerate poems from 2019 after a horrible breakup & my dad's death), and "All We Need Is A Great Ending" : poems writ on return from the mid-forest cabin trip documented in "The Night I Drank The Sky".
its the middle of aftermidnight & im up drinking tea glowing mushrooms so moonfuls of early october become infinity in me
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The Time I Forgot To Forget I Was God
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The Night I Drank The Stars
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Archetype Degenerate
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Psilosisyphus
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Shaman Poems
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Going To Outerspace With Our Feet In The Mud
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After Blood-Soaked Centuries of Supposed Progress & Advance
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The Coltrane Poems : Thus Deep In Prayer
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To Infinity, Within : Dmt Tales From A Cabin In The Woods
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Mink Hollow Cabin Songs
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Facebook Is Not Your Friend!
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The Artistic Response & Other Thoughts : Poetic Responses To The Blue Spark, Part VI
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There Is No Going Back : Poetic Responses To The Blue Spark, Part V
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Fields Within Fields : Poetic Responses To The Blue Spark, Part IV
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Who Are We Living For? Poetic Responses To The Blue Spark Part III
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Language Is The Cage & The Key : Poetic Responses To The Blue Spark Part II
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Circuits Of Attention : Poetic Responses To The Blue Spark, Part 1
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Stand The Moon On Its Side
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Trusting In The Mystery
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Red Bearded & Starry Eyed
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When Galaxies Collide
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Inside The Poet's Head
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The Cosmic Dreams & Secret Nebulous Unsayables of The 21st Century Adolescent "i"
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This Ancient Ritual
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New Mind Ground
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Native Seeds
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Emergence
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Emergence & Other Poems
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Wallingford – Compact Disc
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Mike Mahoney Nether Providence Township, Pennsylvania
"the miraculous return of Whitman, Snyder, Muir, Abbey, Rumi, Gibran in a tender-hearted marijuana mushroom sacrament wilderness visionquester drummer shaman freedom singer."
-- Antler
