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pillowcase [sand] ballet

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August 16, 2024
The Lining Of Sleep, René Magritte, 1928

Dorian Winter is an emerging artist and writer from Perth,…

the chimes of 3am (twirl and twinkle in suburban midnight) a sandman (at the foot of my bed, lounging) a half-finished, twice-brewed english breakfast teacup competing with lukewarm, paper-thin plastic water bottle (upright) on my scuffed bedside table oh, beckon me, pillowcase parade let the muscular knots of yesterday melt into department store cotton-polyester please? <a sandy disagreement> a poison kiss of nightshade, the half-life of a 40-hr candle (false advertising) the moulting, lizard-like-cascade of psoriasis shedding like the fur of an eager puppy the faint hum of jazz and galloping piano notes, checking the blue moon illumination of my iPhone, please? <a sandy ambivalence> please? <a familiar falling sensation> <a jeté into soft clouds>
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Dorian Winter is an emerging artist and writer from Perth, Western Australia. His art & poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in Pelican, Fifth Wheel Press, Outlander, The Ekphrastic Review, Ars Sentenia, The Malu Zine, the engine(idling, and elsewhere. Additionally, he is the founder and editor-in-chief of Antler Velvet. You can find him at dorianwinter.com, or maybe at a French bakery somewhere.

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