Silent Motorist Media
A onetime horror and weird fiction press now promoting essays and scholarship on literature, philosophy, religion, and the weird.
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- Sep 13, 2026
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Poem-a-Day, June through August 2024 (opens the original)
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(Undeveloped Thoughts) On Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey into Night (2018) (opens the original)
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The Freeze (a poem) (opens the original)
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The seas are too old, we no longer know them And the city night is merely a kind of blindness How quickly this world has changedAnd given up coherence The freeze settles across two hundred thousand milesOr is there some redeeming counterweightYou use to mark love?Time endures by repeating Almost soundlessly from the black edges of the room And still you palmed the Pearl of Great Value Steaming from before the freeze I glance up from a book Torpor and exhaus
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