{"id":2796,"date":"2015-05-01T00:59:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T00:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:43:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:43:05","slug":"just-the-once-by-russ-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/just-the-once-by-russ-harrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Just The Once by Russ Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just The Once<\/h1>\n

by Russ Harrison<\/p>\n

Our sad, sick prose
\nTragic in its transient beauty like glass in the moment between one and shattering
\nSparkling shards moving from the magical physics expressed to the mundane aftermath.
\nWe were like that once, just the once.
\nFor a moment in time as the word was made flesh and our innocence, our purity, our passing notion of self, lost
\nLost again as we struggle to surface for breath in the entangled crenulations of the minds\u2026
\nThe so many minds
\n\u2026 that trap us..
\nA single, sharp, sinking hole, a singularity in rhythm lacking vowels.
\nSo thin, so dimensional
\nPausing on the precipice of what might have been only to fall in undulating flashes of wreckage\u2026
\nforever
\n\u2026for once, for just the once
\nSleeping
\nUntil the center holds again
\nDreaming
\nUntil the collapse
\nDormant
\nUntil Eden is reborn.
\nWaking
\nUntil the once\u2026just the once<\/p>\n

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Russ Harrison is a painter, sculptor and poet living lives with his wife Diane and 15 year old son Liam ~65 miles west of Washington D.C. in Berryville, VA. Russ has had poetry and prose published periodically over the years and his paintings and sculpture are shown and sold in local galleries, shows and festivals. His artwork, like his poetry and general philosophy, tends toward abstract realism or Absurdism. When not engaged in pusuit of the Arts, Russ is an Enterprise Architect for a large Communications and IT Services firm where he strives to meld art and science to solve business problems and support his avocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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