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  • Cherry Tomato

    Delicate skin fleshy bulb petite royalty. So soft, so small. Plump, round, majestic lingering on green vine. Shine beneath Apollo’s rays! Blood as red as your own pulses through my body now, my gaze fixed on you. I lust for the truth you hold, but I know you will not satisfy intellectual hunger (for I…

    Dan Metzger

    October 7, 2012
    Poetry
    cherry tomato, desire, fruit, hunger, poem, poetry, tomato, vegetable
  • Fingertips

    A slight, dry wind flowed through the trees and under the sky, pressing black dresses against long legs, making hair frayed and frazzled. Morning commuters buzzed along the streets. Oblivious to the chaos beyond the windshield. Trapped in the awful moment, a day set aside for teardrops and sorrow, a girl got out of her mother’s…

    Dan Metzger

    October 2, 2012
    Fiction, Short Story
    daughter, death, father, Fiction, funeral, sister, suicide, tears
  • Ear-buds

    Ear-buds

    A few nights ago I entered my apartment building listening to some music on my iPod. It wasn’t loud to the point where I was about to blow the wee speakers out (which happens way too often), but Mozart’s “Symphony #25” was all that was audible. Now, I consider myself to be a safe person. Growing up in a…

    Dan Metzger

    September 28, 2012
    Fiction, Short Story
    Boston, classical music, Fiction, ipod, Mozart, police, studio apartment
  • A Quick Introduction

    A Quick Introduction

    It was recently suggested that I begin blogging. Two of my closest friends used to josh by saying that they had me pegged as one who would have a blog, which had not been the case until now. So here I am, typing for whomever to see. I used to be an avid writer of…

    Dan Metzger

    May 31, 2011
    Essay, Gallimaufry
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