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I Am Santo

Posts By: Jason Santo

False Gifts

iPhone 5 shotThis empty heaven, it dangles beauty and bisects the cancer of a day’s death. A glass of still knifing through wood and diluting radiant gifts, it remains striking while still a copy; alluring while within reach. Sullied by approachability, value sinks as if counterfeit, but remains held aloft by settled hearts, a bounty […]

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Swim

iPhone 5 shotBending light as greedy lovers would their bodies in heated union, flashes of electric brilliance glimmer unpredictably. Submerge mind in body in this rapture, soak in every moment of her stinging chill, air rushing from shocked lungs as eyes press shut and ears mute from the world’s hurry. Sensual paradise, breaking to the […]

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Led

iPhone 5 shotAll paths lead to you. Every decision, each consideration, wrapped in your small fingers which search for my guiding hand, grip firmly and, eyes straight but filled with constant inquiry, we move into a shared future with careful steps. The claim is you’re led this way or that, but cues are obvious as […]

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A Dream of Rain

iPhone 5 shotDon’t listen to the empty drone of nature’s agony, or the soft cadence of rain’s sorrow. The wet cringe of tossed hours, kisses absent the flood of desire, words poured from empty thoughts. Surrounded by moistened air, drowning in each breath vacant purpose without hands clinging to throat, breast, thigh or neck. Light […]

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Beautiful Corruption

iPhone 5 shot An infinite clear interrupted, we stare at the amassing rage of our distress and long for a return to calm, when words didn’t spill in a confused rush and taint the fashioned balance so desired. To take it back, to melt these utterances under sunlight would be to sear vibrance not only […]

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The Fleeting

iPhone 5 shot Close these days without effort. Sing them out of their duty and release yoke from necks strained by repetitive toil. A circuit broken, the hours stretch out in a straight line leading to a final sunset when kisses striate clouds over a leafy horizon and love sneaks glimpses of life as a […]

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An Exorcism

Her confessions rise like a billowing of smoke from her chest, sentient and reptilian. I draw them out of her, the bait for this hungry serpent that wants to continue drawing strength from her forever, but which is tempted by my caring manner and consideration. As she speaks of her past, it slinks into the […]

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Inviting the Storm

iPhone 5 shot In those instants when we saw our world ending, it was great wonder that swallowed our fear. We were not in our right minds, and swung our heads up to greet the oncoming maelstrom, holding onto each other with quaking bodies as delicious lightning struck and tore through everything we knew, obliterating […]

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Fire in the Void

iPhone 5 shotThis distant heart – radiant and reliable, a circle within endless cycles – demands response. Beheld in awe, mouths pull wide at the weight of it beauty, tears sting as hearts ache to understand its furious draw. To drift is to fight nature’s will, spitting in the face of laws that will desert […]

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It’s Been Said

These words are not his own. They’re borrowed from the mouth of a wandering heart, culled from minds blessed with immeasurably more eloquence. It’s all another role in this endless drama put on through each crawl the sun makes across the sky, a mask that fits for a spell, then cracks and breaks as truth […]

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