Author Paul! Lang

“The beast of the gulch is on the move. It hunts without reason. It kills without eating. Its prey is the sound of a beating heart. Within the shallows of the gulch dwells death.”

Book 9 of The Kingdom’s Disdain is available now!

  • A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Special Effects  Chest pain Is a constant  A wall between myself and the body There is a chronology that I am separated from as I hover  Above the flesh, noncommittal Like a prince who can’t make up his mind You’re falling into the water You’re stumbling…

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  • WD 222 “A Diagram”

    A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. A Diagram I close like The petals of a flower Come in to meet me and hide in my dark All the stages of grief can be felt and once As we slide down the stem In lightless peace and horror  What I am is No…

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  • WD 221 “Claude Frollo”

    A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Claude Frollo Say what you mean to me My particles are rippling with the burden of anticipation And antiseptic creams that wash out infections You’re covered in them, blistering beasts of unmatched ferocity The sun sets on you when you like  And you’re back to let…

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  • WD 220 “Eclipse”

    A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Eclipse Built up like a jackhammer The sun creeps across an onyx floor Gagging the call for restraint  Luna is swallowed up in the jaws of  A hungry wolf  Trust no one, lest they trust in you  For surely, a righteous man once walked here The…

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  • WD 219 “Ideation”

    A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Ideation I am the feather on the tail of the arrow Helping it find its way home In the blocked up entryway to your vein Son of earth Daughter of sky The moment of contact is everything And you pray that no one will be there…

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  • A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Hypothetical Numbers Settle your debts  Before they break you Come to terms with your debtors  In this life before the next  You were  like a candle never lit Left out on an open window  Suffusing the house with cold wind There’s nothing to see No place…

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  • A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. A Day in February  Another day  Another chance for the sun to  Kiss you as it passes Off center, tied with a ribbon to the stone that spins under you Because it’s all yours  Wondering into forever  Fields of green Cats and kittens  And you’re always…

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  • A poem inspired by the Muse of Cold Earth. So Speaks the Worm Mother nature never looks me in the eye But, I like to make claims in her name Genetic absolution by self flagellation  A hollow whistle through the empty trunk of a log We took a hundred pills for our particular breed of…

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  • WD 215 “Parallax TV”

    A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Parallax TV  Like a tree armed with needles  A sinister synergy of malice and growth Affixed to the cable lining the sky You keep the elements running through your ley lines A sovereign distraction from the chorus of demons There is Nowhere but up No chains…

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  • Feast of Lights (Repost)

    Last year I wrote a holiday story set in the world of The Kingdom’s Disdain. I haven’t written a new holiday story yet, so here is a link!

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  • A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Change My Skin I came to a realization At the peak of one lunar mountain The things that changed me were also changed.  Coins in my pocket, jingling with oils and skin cells  Passed between traders and betrayers alike  Silver in the shaft like Judas hunting werewolves…

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