To-Do
List
by D.C. Buschmann
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Entries hang
like apples
with due insouciance
until becoming
the raison d'être
picked off
just before putrid.
by D.C. Buschmann
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Entries hang
like apples
with due insouciance
until becoming
the raison d'être
picked off
just before putrid.
Giving
Birth to a Dancing Star
by D.C. Buschmann
by D.C. Buschmann
After
the view
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the
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000000000000after
the tempest
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the abyss
comes
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000000000000from
the pounding rain
teaching
us to love
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love’s
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let go
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the
00000000000000000umbrella.
"I
tell you: One must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing
star."
—Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
—Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
D.C.
Buschmann is routinely ordered
about by two miniature schnauzers, Cupcake and Coco, and is a
freelance editor in Carmel, Indiana. She has been published in
numerous anthologies in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and India,
including Rat’s Ass Review and
Lamar University’s Wise Ass
Anthology. In 2016, she was a
finalist both in the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction contest and in
the Pride in Poetry contest by NavWorks Press.