Chapter 16 in the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem Jake watches Preston’s rust-riddled Range Rover disappear down the driveway before returns unevenly to the courtyard, he didn’t intend to end this exceeding long, emotionally exhausting day drunk, but after Dwayne’s …
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Chapter 14 from the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem HHistory turns on minor moments and ironically, preconditioning doesn’t much matter once the moment goes live. But that really only holds for those who later attempt to truthfully retrace their journey …
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Chapter 13 in the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem Jake doesn’t notice Theresa being dropped off on the security cameras, he doesn’t hear her unlock the courtyard gate, or step through the tasting room’s double French doors. Her sudden appearance …
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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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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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