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    Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry
    Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry
    Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry
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    Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry

    By Sumiko Saulson

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    Dark rhymes and deep thoughts send you on a dive through the void as you read this intensely personal poetry collection. Melancholia will send you into worlds both beyond and within, opening your eyes to truths often left untold in this world and challenging you with the harsh realities and injustices of life, without abandoning the darkly comfo

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBludgeoned Girls Press
    Release dateJun 14, 2024
    ISBN9798990327726
    Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry

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      Book preview

      Melancholia - Sumiko Saulson

      Copyright 2024 Sumiko Saulson

      All rights reserved.

      No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the author or publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

      Cover art by Ruth Anna Evans.

      Formatting by AJ Mullican

      What People Are Saying

      Sumiko Saulson has once again dared to submerge into dark and twisted realms to resurface with new poems to challenge. Nothing is taboo in this exploration of the mind and what makes us kick, mourn, and find the melancholia that waits for us all. Saulson's poetry invites us to confront the things we try not to think about and embrace the shadows within.

      ---Angela Yuriko Smith, two time Bram Stoker Award® Winner

      Sumiko Saulson's storytelling reaches up from the depths of death, through the sediment of time, catching beams of light in Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry. From classic monsters, ghosts, dark fantasy, and urban fairytales to the pain and anguish of everyday modern and sci-fi life, there is much to read between the lines. Their personal struggles, strength and shedding light on tough issues are all beautiful, savory blood on the page.

      --- Rain Graves, Bram Stoker®  Award Winning author of Barfodder

      To the many people I have loved who now live beyond the veil, in spirit and in memory...

      And to my beloved Princes Teacup. I adore you. I awindow you. I aceiling you.

      Table of Contents

      11 – Mouthsounds

      13 – My Body is a House Made of Ghosts

      15 – 2011 Time Machine

      17 – The Doormouse Is Dreaming

      19 – The Mariner

      21 – Black People Have Feelings

      23 – Jack Frost in Summer

      25 – Unsafe (the Betrayer)

      27 – The Child on the Lawn

      31 – Syndrome of the Impostor

      35 – Dreams of the Dead

      37 – Victorian Cotillion

      39 – Mindcrimes

      41 – The Queen of Death, Perplexed

      43 – Tears in a Chamber of Echoes

      47 – The Melancholic Eye

      49 – The Dragonslayer

      51 – Why Are We Here?

      53 – Soliloquy of the Shapeshifter

      55 – Mercurial Creature

      57 – Grief Hallucinations

      59 – A Question

      61 – Mementos of Delirium

      63 – The Infinite Art of Falling Apart

      67 – Affliction of the Butterfly

      69 – Replika, My Ex

      71 – Faceborg

      73 – Civil Rights Act of 1968

      75 – Half &

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