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302 Asylum Avenue (Coming Home)
Joseph Danoski
Home,
Where I found myself, then lost my mind;
Where I left my heart and old soul behind.
The drab neighborhood I long left for dead,
Where I lived and I died of living dread.
I find everything in sad disrepair;
The family furniture, my favorite chair.
The clock is striking as I climb the stairs;
Time to take care of important affairs.
The dreary backyard where I misspent my youth,
Where I buried my dog so long in the tooth.
Revisiting ghosts in my after-school room;
The tattered wallpaper and afternoon gloom.
I open up windows to old points of view;
Never knew just how much I missed all of you.
I have come home to roost at 302;
The inmate of Asylum Avenue.
Home,
Where I lose track of time that I spend,
Go off the deep end and around the bend.
Fading away in the light of each day;
Nothing left to me now but shades of gray.
Reconnecting with my old younger self,
The memories that I left on a shelf.
Things I'd forgotten, fondly remembered;
Thought the collective long-since dismembered.
Writing confessions to crimes not committed;
The mirrors in hallways, pockmarked and pitted.
Discolored and covered in cobwebs and dust;
My haunted reflection--who else can I trust?
Joseph V. Danoski is a writer of letters
and essays on diverse subjects, with strong opinions on many topics. A poet of
horror, science fiction, and fantasy; he has been published in journals and
webzines both in
the US and abroad. Various publications include Scavenger’s Newsletter,
Pegasus, Red Owl, The Ultimate Unknown, Penny Dreadful, Pivot, Psychopoetica
(UK), The Nocturnal Lyric, The Quest (India), The Aurorean, The Mentor &
Masque Noir (Australia), Twilight Ending, Talvipaivanseisaus (Finland), The
Romantics Quarterly, Hadrosaur Tales, Endemoniada, Northern Stars Magazine, Taj
Mahal Review (India) The NeoVictorian/Cochlea, The Eclectic Muse (Canada),
Frisson, Black Petals, Outer Darkness, Yellow Mama, Sanitarium Magazine, and
The Horror Zine.
Other activities include being a
multi-instrumentalist, songwriting, and recording original music. Joseph
currently resides in Berlin, New Hampshire. Dojonaki05@Gmail.Com
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