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PistDEIS
Kyle Haymond
i stand still.
light penetrates the translucent
paper-thin skin wrapping
there are six aluminum pistons
copper stuffed bones
protruding from my back
while limp arms hang
pumping persistently
grazing the skin
idly bearing impotent
tight vertebrae between
wind chime fingers
the oiled orifices
with dull clicks
my mouth is exhausting
huffing and choking out dark
black oil drips
heavy smoke through
streams of iridescence
jagged teeth
down the emaciated
with a metallic chittering
valleys of my back
and organic wheezing
and down long stilt legs
into the basin
a mother-of-pearl gloss
of my shadow
inhabits my sunken glass eyes
in their skull pits
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�Pistons
blind yet probing
with short circuit twitching
snow falls from cloudless starry black into soft
blankets of white
i shiver in the slow storm that promises to bury
everything
sound reverberates from deep below the barren
crust of moon-earth
a bassy rumble the same timbre as the mechanical
hum of my bird heart
iam one of many
and my pistons pump
without rest
for the Hell Engine
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Tbie hen of Fire
Kyle Haymond
the low decanter
Cast iron pan
sizzles and sweats
of the soul
with all its warmth
used oil down its side to
white charcoal
Heavy scent of
blood and iron
an olfactory aura drifting
The pit dims
to low-light crackle
It's power fading,
absorbed
beyond the ken of fire
into us
into the
wooded ether
Amber glow lilts
on our faces
the primal dance of flame
Mouth waters,
the first bite to
engage the senses
fully yet delicately, filling
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Ttie SDEnEibkaquist
Kyle Haymond
Over there are the roots of trees, the empty dwellings of birds and snakes. The low light of dusk
fades To whoever finds this record, perhaps quite long since my departure, doubtless seeing the large
collection of poetry and collected writings stacked within this house... I leave it alt to you. I simply wish to
share my story with someone before I go, if you’d indulge this humble record.
As you'll duly note, many of these pages and books are quite rare in their singularity. They’re all
written by the renowned Emry Anders, ’The Dreaming Poet'. Every published book, manuscript, draft, and
scribble she ever penned, I’m quite sure, It’s been quite a painstaking process acquiring them all from
Emry’s family. My own relatives, forever estranged, would describe this endeavor as obsessive. Despite
the struggle and disapproval. I’ve maintained this collection to a pristine level, if you discount the wear of
my endless thumbing and flipping of every page.
... The chosen find themselves
bearing crimson waves
on the shores of madness...
- Upon the Precipice. Emry Anders
To do this record justice, as the last vestige of my life, I will not attempt to play the revisionist in
this brief telling. What follows will be an accurate depiction of my thoughts as I thought them, I believe
this, paired with the collection, will illuminate my journey to you. My love of Emry’s poetry did not supplant
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much in my life, as I never chased after marriage or starting a family. Those traditional life pursuits never
took, as I never really fit in with this world, and so, I have lived a lonely life. I was lonely and empty before,
but now, I am neither, I assure you.
Once, I was the primary investigator in the now famous Anders case a little over ten years ago
in this very city. Before this case crossed my desk, I could hardly be said to have read anything at all
aside from work related reports and memos, the occasional newspaper article. I was quite boring, many
would say. I never gave much time to things outside my work, let alone something as frivolous as a highly
eccentric body of poetry with a reputation of “expanding the horizons of the mind." It frankly annoyed me
when it landed on my desk.
The Anderses', her husband Silas included, fame began with a relative, cult-like status in the
literary world but quickly spread, and by the time her second book came out, she was a national best
seller. Her work quickly permeated everything from high school yearbook quotes to being quoted in
congressional speeches, strangely enough. This mostly subverted the uninitiated's awareness.
Five years into the reign of the Anderses, there arose many speculations and accusations of
behind-the-scenes nefariousness regarding the likes of fraud, tax evasion, and abuse. Such is the way of
people with money and influence, I suppose. Many ears perked at the chance to head a high-profile case,
but not mine. Perhaps that’s why I was chosen to lead the investigation.
Some accusations, on their face, seemed more likely than others. Those of fraud and tax evasion
by Silas, the face of the duo’s operation, were then my first avenue of investigation. I thought if I could get
him on something tangible, his other crimes would be easier to coax out.
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The accusations of abuse were made very public but did not have a leg to stand on, due to her
reassuring public appearances, though admittedly scarce, and the wellness check conducted a year prior
to my investigation. Silas played the role of the loving, supportive husband very well. It was, dare I say,
weirdly wholesome. It was only over the past couple of years that Emry was appearing less and less while
Silas appeared more and more as figurehead of the budding enterprise. She was a private person, in love
with her art, he’d say,
Over the weeks I found myself pouring over legal documents, ledgers and tax forms trying
to make sense of what crime, if any, at that point had been committed. Connections to politicians and
businesses unrelated to the industry sparked some thought, but nothing illegal yet. After examining Silas
thoroughly, the idea that he was some charlatan or opportunist would not surprise me. He had all the
motivation and control he needed to commit heinous acts. Though, nothing in what he said was uncouth
or obviously corrupt, it was in how he said it. Like everything was a lie he didn’t understand he was telling,
or that he believed wholeheartedly himself. It was a confused feeling, but it seemed more and more clear
that Silas was manipulating and profiting off Emry.
Inexplicably, I found myself looking through some of Emry’s books for the first time, perhaps
looking for some kind of message hidden in the text. Some kind of hint to her situation. The first book of
hers 1 read was Descriptions of the Corridor, her debut. There was something to this woman, something
innately human.
At the release, she claimed that the poems therein were spoken aloud by her while she slept.
Silas would transcribe her mumblings for her to arrange, compile, and release. Certainly an approach to
marketing.
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... By my very mode of being
I am persecuted
By that which descends upon me
From both sides.
-Night Songs. Emry Anders
In Descriptions I found nothing but the surprisingly engrossing view of a young woman’s twilight
dream world, full of abstractions, dark twisting narratives, and the hint of great horrors lurking in the dark
waters upon which her dream boat rode,
I didn't quite understand this at the time, but I had formed the vague idea of someone who was
afraid yet completely numb to fear. Her work was like an expression of fear from someone who had
conquered it. There was confidence. An ownership of fear.
After a month and a half of digging, compiling various records, phony ledgers, and contracts, we
finally had what we needed to bring Silas to court.
There was a distinct lack of Emry at the proceedings as the charges against Silas were not for
a crime against her. He, in fact, extolled her innocence and claimed himself the one responsible for the
business side of their small empire, When her time to take the stand came, she returned the favor and
defended him with fervor. Was it love that compelled her I wondered.
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This muddied the water of the abuse claims, as that was the perfect opportunity to speak up
and she didn't. It seemed to me this was some sort of Stockholm syndrome or perhaps Silas was actually
innocent of that accusation.
What really took me off guard was the inexplicable defense of Silas forwarded by many fans and
those in the industry itself. Some of which were those he had allegedly defrauded, and yet they rallied to
his aid. Often their claims would fly directly in the face of undeniable evidence. We puzzled over what kind
of spell had been cast or blackmail he had to demand such loyalty.
Hell, a lot of powerful people lauded his goodwill under oath and praised the majesty of Emry’s
art: how it must be protected and any of Silas' wrong doings should be forgiven by sheer virtue of their
product. It was a brief yet wild section of the trial that afforded Silas little ground.
Around the time of the trial, I found myself engrossed in Emry's liminal Upon the Precipice and
Night Songs. These were Emry's break outs, releasing back to back, skyrocketing in popularity seemingly
overnight. I found myself really leaning into her work. My free time was consumed by the worlds she
imagined. I caught a lot of flack for it at the department, saying I had just learned to read, but I knew there
was something to her. To her words,
it seemed so incomprehensible that the mild mannered and humble Emry Anders could produce
such vivid and alien worlds. I was simply entranced.
It wasn't long after that, after only a couple of months of reading, I realized I was falling in love
with a poet I’d only ever met once before in a brief pre-trial interview.
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... drowsy monuments tower over the emptiness...
... every observed particle a slave to this God.
- Exhuming Arcana. Emry Anders
Silas was losing the trial and facing a minimum of fifteen years in prison. By all accounts, this was
a victory, but my job felt incomplete. Emry’s tales of traveling the endless colored abyss of her dreams,
seeing through the eyes of great beasts, and the feelings of loneliness previously unimagined left me with
an unshakeable feeling that something was truly wrong. Was Silas the omnipotent deity that kept her
imprisoned in dark thorns? Was it through his eyes she saw these great truths of the universe? Fitting
metaphors for someone locked away by a manipulator. It just made so much sense.
The law at that point permitted me a warrant and sent me to the dull green door of the Anders'
home. Even now I can’t help but feel like some kind of knight on a quest to save a princess, locked away
in a castle. After stewing in her work for months and working the trial, I felt that, finally, I was able to truly
repay her. I could really meet the poet of my dreams, not as an interrogator, but as her savior. Perhaps
she’d be conjuring her next great poem when we found her in the depths of sleep.
That all feels a little childish now, but it is what it is. I loved her.
We knocked and no one answered, so we knocked harder until the door fell off its hinges and we
went looking for Emry.
I remember the scene so vividly. The place was distraught. Smelled of rotten food, ink and
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parchment, and a horrendous body odor. It was dark, the only light crawling in through the cracks in the
shutters. A thick dust hovered in near stasis in the stagnant air. The air of imminent death. There was a
musty weight to it al! that made me think of some long abandoned tomb.
Nearly every surface, including the floor, was covered in piles of loose paper with the maddened,
barely English scrawlings of some obsessive wraith, There was a beautiful chaos to it all, like the
manifestation of a great artist's insides, spewn relentlessly into the confines of a small home.
The dim-lit library of ancients...
... hidden grandeur littered every table...
One secret unknowable.
-Upon the Precipice
The darkened maze that had overlaid itself over the likely once charming home engulfed us as
we crept deeper into the crazed depths. Silence and my quickening heartbeat were all I could hear, my
mind raced to find yet unthought conclusions. I worried about the fate of Emry when we had not found
her, but we still had the basement to search. My heart swelled with the thought of the untold stories that
littered the floor we tread upon. I know now how sacred this place was.
Finally, in the deepest place of the house, lay a sleeping Emry Anders in a small bed in a dusty,
yellow-stained room, illuminated by a single bulb fixture. A moldy IV drip punctured a deep purple bruise
on her arm. Dark bags held up her closed eyes and accented her otherwise pale complexion. An oxygen
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mask modified with a brown, crusted feeding tube seemed conjoined with her face, edges pressing into
her skin. Her chest rose and depressed so lightly, hardly to be noticed. The color of her skin inside the
mask contrasting the rest of her unwashed body. She was smalt and frail then, though not always so. A
pair of handcuffs fastened her to the headboard leaving dark marks on her wrist. This must have been her
longest stint on the other side of dreams.
Tucked beside the bed was the only other thing in the room, a modest wooden desk. It clicked
into place for me then that the stories were true. This is where he sat while she slumbered in melodic
decrepity. I tell you now, this place was a temple to everything wonderful and good, though my peers only
saw a trapped and abused woman. They didn't know the truth like I did.
We would later find the IV keeping her alive was not as giving as it appeared, if it can be believed.
In the concoction was a sedative to keep her asleep. An induced coma where she could dream forever.
Muttering her nightmares to Silas so he could push books and make their money, which by the state of
the home, seemed unaccounted for. All while her body rotted and her mind swam endlessly in beautiful
nightmares.
How he escalated this madness, trying to squeeze every drop of that beautiful girl's power. He
must have loved her if he waited so long to do this. Oh, the hum of her words.
Suffice it to say, Silas died in an asylum not long ago now. After our discovery, he was... undone.
No longer able to wear the mask of the charming literary mogul.
Attempts to rehabilitate Emry were less than successful. Her body had long resigned to the
dream world, incapable of being awake for more than an hour or so at a time.
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In dreaming, I awake...
... I have always coveted
separation.
- Oceans of Tar
She died a few weeks after her "rescue." After years of lying in that bed, days to weeks to possibly
months at a time, physically dependent on her medication, the shock of being wrested from it proved too
much for her malnourished, fragile body. She was beautiful, I only hope she is dreaming still.
I was able to, painstakingly as I mentioned, attain all of her work shortly after this. I assume
their families were torn between their lust for knowledge and disgust at what had happened. A weak
disposition 1 did not share that cost them everything. I knew something like this, something like what
Emry did, does not just happen, and I was plagued with the nagging of needing to know. I saw Emry as the
emissary she was, not some victim to a whelp like Silas.
I took my pension as soon as 1 could and spent my retirement searching. Searching for the
Corridor, I poured through every word she ever wrote and then again and again.
Tonight, recent revelations fill me with a motivation I have never quite felt.
I know what my life is for now.
In my home, which I have inhabited for nearly ten years, I too shall dream a beautiful midnight
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dream. I will go to the basement of this old ailing home to meet my love upon the precipice of dreams.
I write from the indentations of Emry Anders bed, where you find me now. How her body
compliments mine. A solution of my own creation hangs above me, its stinger promising everything that
I've searched for. I will find the divine frequencies that echoed through Emry so many years ago now. Oh.
how quiet the world has been.
To the one who finds me. I leave everything to you.
May you take up my kingdom and follow down this chosen path.
May you and everyone you love find their way to the beautiful and twisted world of dreams, as
we are all compelled to do.
Now in sleep, the corridor lay before me.
I vibrate in diminishing earth tones.
And something faraway awakes...
- Descriptions of the Corridor
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