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Eric Jennings

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The Clearing

The boy walks the wooded trail. Every third or fourth tree is topped by a crow who appears to be watching. The woods are silent except for…

3d ago

The Clearing

3d ago

(this was written a few weeks ago)

everything that has ever befallen me, or that i have done, or that i have avoided doing (facing), has been in preparation for what is to…

May 15

A rainbow colored pinwheel, softly spinning in the foreground. Behind it are many gravestones.

May 15

The Lost Boy

I don’t remember much about being six years old. It’s as if I didn’t exist until I did…

Jan 24

16th century ink drawing, “Zhuangzi Dreaming of a Butterfly.” Depicts a Chinese monk sleeping under fluttering butterflies.

Jan 24

Excerpt From the Americ Book of the Dead

The old woman’s body on a platform that fills the cave, pallid skin, leathered face, lower lip stretched up over the upper, sutured in…

Nov 29, 2024

Cave art depicting three humanoid figures. The image has been colorized in surreal golds, greens, oranges and pinks, giving it a mysterious psychedelic look.

Nov 29, 2024

Who Am I This Time?

I started this essay before the election, but was knocked completely off balance by the results and couldn’t get back into it until this…

Nov 17, 2024

Cave art illustration of a mysterious humanoid figure with arms over its head rendered in psychedelic colors.

Nov 17, 2024

Random Encounter

The images that come in dreams are not random. There was nothing random about my father coming to me — in a dream — to tell me how sad he…

Aug 20, 2024

Vintage photo of a gravestone that says, “Fast.” Someone spray-painted the word, “Hold” above “Fast”.

Aug 20, 2024

It Has to Be Harris

The risk is too great. It must be Kamala Harris, and we must unite behind her. The longer we wait, the harder it’s going to be.

Jul 6, 2024

photo of Jo Biden and Kamala Harris after Biden’s win in 2020

Jul 6, 2024

A Bad Fall, and a Return

I had a bad fall. As in the season. My mood generally turns dour around September, but then usually gets better by Thanksgiving. My…

Jun 27, 2024

Photograph of a field of collard greens growing in rows with low mountains in the background. The colors have been manipulated making the sky blood red and the collards red and green.

Jun 27, 2024

A Man in Full

Despite his six foot height and broad shoulders, his clothes hung on him loosely like a child growing into hand-me-downs. He wore a green…

May 8, 2024

photo of a pair of bright red boxing gloves hanging on a gravestone next to a faded illustration of Jesus

May 8, 2024

Mastodon Doesn’t Want You

There can be no good reason for this kind of obstacle.

Apr 30, 2024

Mastodon Doesn’t Want You

Apr 30, 2024

Eric Jennings

Eric Jennings

he/him

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dilettante, poet, invocateur, acccidental yogi and dabbler in patamysticism which is the spiritual branch of pataphysics. patamystic.com

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