Companion poem to chapter 3 of the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is To be Done”Read original poem, Read chapter The very next breathis how we accept the wager between destiny and fate.In a world fueled by evil,do we dare differentiate those acting on instinctfrom the …
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Companion poem from chapter 2 of the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read original poem, Read chapter The madness of May pressesagainst the soul with the very veracitySanta Anna’s use to push the pastinto a pretext for right now.Wind whispers warningslaced with remnants …
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Companion poem to chapter 1 of the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read original poem, Read chapter I stare into the frigiddarkness of nighta shadow of what once was,devoid of knowingwhat to doin the aftermathof all that’s been taken,the little that remains.You will …
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R.M. Dolin, January 27, 2025 I still taste the tenderness of sunrise on your touch, the way you hold me, or maybe I hold you. In the end, does it even ever matter? The long ago of yesterday lingers like a tent, alone and isolated …
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Chapter 12 from the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem 1, read poem 2 Darkness peers through the kitchen window casting dawn in suffocating layers of stillness. A cold light hovers over the oval table casting a forlorn aura that stands …
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Chapter 11 from the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem Pensively, Jake sits on the edge of darkness too burdened to entertain the possibility of sleep, especially with night being such a heartless warden, abandoning souls to quiet stillness where only …
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Chapter 10 in the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem, Read original poem The short drive to Our Lady of Sympatico, just a little south and east of Española, is long enough for Jake to consider, then reconsider, how it is …
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Chapter 9 from the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem, read original poem New Mexico moon has a habit of getting lost on its way to May mornings causing dawn to be dark, dank, and dangerously disconcerting. On such mornings, one …
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Chapter 8 from the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem Jake’s awake and dressed in his cycling regalia ahead of Emelia’s five o’clock alarm. How can he sleep with everything that’s happened? How can anyone? What went down last night is …
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Chapter 7 from the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read the companion poem “Barkeep,” Miguel belligerently shouts, holding his hand above his head impatiently snapping fingers. “Tequila, and don’t forget the lime; you forget a man’s lime he maybe thinks you don’t like …
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