Exodus
1March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review
by Patrick Wang
The night glass magnolias threatened infinity, we ran unfenced / through the Appalachia. Sassafras harpooned the papery air, and against the wet, old roots grew / bled themselves cold. We bled too, wrapped our arms in thorns / barbs just to know how far the wringing could go. Here, we echoed / silenced ourselves through / out the riverbanks. And amidst backwater / wash, I told you a secret, that I once stared into a flower’s maw and saw a pistil / pistol staring back. So I fled. I am fleeing / searching for a blazed field pollen- / free. A bruised dawn without the fog.
Patrick Wang is a freshman attending Washington University in St. Louis as a University Scholar in Medicine. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Chautauqua Journal, the textbook Ideas in Context (BFW Publishers), among others. In his free time, he edits for Ephimiliar Journal and watches The Great British Baking Show religiously.
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Good job; keep moving forward & attempt to serve your reader’s unmet needs.
an escape from reality is often times exactly what’s needed…a sense of adventure to get us moving again.
for most today; trust is desired…the truth is surfacing all around us. The common struggles of addictions, depression, lost love or just losses in general but past corruption concealed by the machine (trifecta of Wall Street, Corporate America & Politics) is now rising to public awareness & the press is no longer a tool to conceal the truth.
daily unmet needs; something to just get us thru the day, thru the struggle at hand…some humor?… a call out from a friend…possibly this will assist you in creating a ‘path less traveled’ while directly impacting many collectively.
keep up the good work; it’s quite easy to channel your favorite authors & mentors who have passed…they will tell you to continue their work & provide the signs enabling you to pick up where they left off…jumping ahead of the crowd. There’s probably one or two which have already been attracting your attention…a study of their published work will reveal their mission & life’s purpose…it will be obvious whose desk is still full of unpublished stuff…many creative cultural types self sabotaged walking the razor blade of duality; good & evil.
enjoy your day
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