"...you drink; you meet, you cling, you cleave, you meet, you yearn, you spurn, you split, you meet, you date, you greet, you detonate..."
Stephen Bush sketches an entire life in a single sentence.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/you-live
"From the middle outwards, or from a semi-vacated center where oceans never roll or signal, it moves towards the periphery like a spot of scum on the bathtub that everyone avoids..."
-Robert Speiser, on the toxic religion poisoning our well.
#EarthDay
I have a couple other CS pieces (it's a fantastic magazine, always putting out really great stuff that I love reading!!) that IMO also fall into the "spiral into madness" category.
An entire compelling world of a sentence in @completesentence.bsky.social illustrated with one of @kawalker.bsky.social's splendid works of art! ✨
My guy “Jeff” is up. Come meet him. Much thanks to @completesentence.bsky.social for being the best and pubbing this one!! www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff
"...there’s more Jeffs being born each minute, and more Jeffs dying too, dying from car accidents, cancers..."
@joeyhedger.bsky.social spirals into madness, squinting hard into the self-forged lens we view others through & the world beyond
www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff
Thank you @completesentence.bsky.social for featuring my debut poem “Being Twenty”.
Young adulthood is a rebirth—on your own terms, this time.
Read it here:
www.completesentencelit.com/post/being-t...
"...is seeing cold stars spill on still dark water; is looking up and asking how can this be my one same life..."
@livabegglen.bsky.social meditates on perpetual rebirth, a life that quiets to smoldering coal before blazing up into unexpected, new forms.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/being-t...
"Carlos belts me into the harness, its fabric straps reeking from a decade of skunky tourist sweat so pungent that I can’t smell the Guatemalan forest’s musk anymore..."
Ania Payne, on the stench we leave when searching out the wonders beyond our world.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/plantig...
Sometimes we absolutely nail the art paring. This is one of those times. @kawalker.bsky.social's line work echoes the intricacy, the intimacy of Bush's sentence, depicting how our faces wear the lives we've survived.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/you-live
"...there’s more Jeffs being born each minute, and more Jeffs dying too, dying from car accidents, cancers..."
@joeyhedger.bsky.social spirals into madness, squinting hard into the self-forged lens we view others through & the world beyond
www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff
Complete Sentence
Sometimes we absolutely nail the art paring. This is one of those times. @kawalker.bsky.social's line work echoes the intricacy, the intimacy of Bush's sentence, depicting how our faces wear the lives we've survived.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/you-live
