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The Synergist

As a child he discovered how to assimilate, merge and verge. His five senses did not become six, but a number closer to one. That day, water drooled over mossy stones. He smelled the splash of foaming atoms, the explosive opening of water-buds. He thought to himself - “I can paint my mind over the sky as if it were a cave wall,” A swan rose up, wings clattering, water ligaments pulling a wingspan through a Catherine Wheel of sound. His senses flew together forming clumps of reality which seem to him to be new planets, worlds thrown from the minds of water voles and frogs. He thought to himself- “If I place myself into these little planets, I can leave my footprints on running water, or on the air as if I were a bird made from the light of a foreign sun."

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Date: 10/17/2019 5:34:00 PM
Nice piece! You show how the senses can merge in a positive manner in this fine work! Peace & Love Matthew Anish
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Eric Ashford
Date: 10/17/2019 6:04:00 PM
Thank you Matthew, yes that was my aim. Obliged!

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