Faded Pages

David J. Lovato. Sometimes I weave my way through stacks of books and streaks of dust-filled light and emerge from my room. Sometimes I even work my way past characters and fantasies and emerge from my own head. My skin is made of paper. Ink flows through...

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I See You Glow

May today overwhelm you with love.Let the sun in the sky shine with envy above.Let the birds in the trees sing and scatter their seedsOnly sharp. Sometimes flat.Fit to accompany but not to lead,Subservient to your voice. Every time you open your eyes,May you see the cleanest light.Let every purest winter morning still envelop you in warm sunshine.Let autumn leaves play hide-and-seek,Chase each…

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Aparting

In the wake of a series of losses, fantasies begin to overlap reality. Folksy, down-to-earth poems set in the modern day intersect with imaginative, absurdist images from the afterlife, as Aparting explores what it means to walk the avenues in between, and to go on living with a phantom heart. Whether it’s the end of a relationship, the death of a loved one, or the extinguishing of a spark of…

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Normbies!

It’s a different kind of zombie apocalypse. Everybody knows getting bitten by a zombie turns you into one of them. What took a little longer to figure out is that biting a zombie also changes them back. But there is a cost, and not everyone is ready to pay. As the zombie threat looms as strong as ever over a post-post-apocalyptic world, perceptions toward the creatures begin to shift, as do…

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Two Goodbyes

I remember looking into your eyes The way I couldn’t look into my father’s I’ll owe him that forever, But it was the least I could do for you. For all the nights you lay beside me, All those golden afternoons. The winters when you kept me warm The summers when you fed my youth And now I look into her eyes, Golden brown like yours were Soft and only glad to see me She speaks as softly,…

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The Foreland

Centuries ago, humanity mastered space travel only to find themselves alone in a quiet solar system. Everything changed when they encountered the Navigators, a species of aliens capable of teleportation. Not long after building a new home on a distant planet and surrounding it with satellite colonies, the Navigators revolted, leaving the colonies stranded on the far side of the Universe, with no…

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Your Hands in Winter

Hey there. Hope you’re all doing well.

Three years ago this month, I released my first instrumental album. I’m still working on new writing and new music, but I found a lot of errors on that album, some on my part and some that cropped up while I was uploading it.

I’ve spent the last several weeks re-mixing that album and fixing those errors. You can find the newly-mixed A Handful of Duston my…

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Perfectly accurate depiction of what goes on in this guy’s mind. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7eF-LrAzO9/?igshid=1qasfbzadfu29

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Perfect summary of my sister’s cat, Loki. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6TV2KwAfBS/?igshid=8olakm0eqdyy

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From Time to Time

I think about you, from time to time. Grainy streaks of color stretch and fade Cracked like long-dried paint In a dusty corner of my mind Where a beam of light Emanates from a hole in a sun-bleached paper shade And echoes of memories are traced Into the many years of dust that have always gathered in, And waited there suspended, Eventually started settling And come to rest in this place.

There I…

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Nowhere Road (from This Can't Be All There Is)

Nowhere Road (from This Can’t Be All There Is)

Nowhere Road

Hey, weary traveler Come with me tonight, All you have to do is be a passenger.

You can recline your seat, Roll down the window, Maybe even get some sleep.

There won’t be anyone on the roads, Because this is a direction nobody goes. It’s a way that very few people seem to know, And the ones who do know better than to take it.

I’ll take you somewhere the lines have faded And nothing…

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This Can't Be All There Is

This Can’t Be All There Is

I’ve been sitting on this one for far too long, and I’m excited to finally put it out there.

This Can’t Be All There Iswas originally intended to be both a poetry book and a fully recorded spoken-word album. I’ve dabbled in the idea in the past, but this time, I got close. Every song was demoed, and most of them were completely finished, save for a few touch-ups, and one major aspect: the…

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He always chooses the highest perch. Ever watchful, our guardian even in sleep. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3wopIYAvUV/?igshid=dvy5y9ryay1n

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Her name is September. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3IdVPuADZU/?igshid=1munzbt0zaqo2

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My beautiful boy. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1RBwBrgDzX/?igshid=108wpbl7yojs

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The Afterglow

Hey there. I’m back again, and I brought another friend with me.

Everyone knows about the afterglow: When someone dies, their spirit briefly visits the living soul who meant the most to them, before quickly fading from this world.

Jake and Emma were normal teens in high school, until a tragic accident claimed Emma’s life. Jake’s understanding of the world is fractured when Emma’s afterglow…

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My entire life you’ve been obsessing with the light, The closer that you get, the further up you’ll have to climb. https://www.instagram.com/p/ByC3J4Dgqgn/?igshid=rhz6bgxbiyph