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Widderside<\/h1>\n

by Oliver Smith<\/h3>\n

Illustrated by Joel Basilion<\/h3>\n

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The airy spirits soared on rainbow wings<\/p>\n

and sang fair songs. They whispered you among<\/p>\n

bright, enchanted flowers and guided you<\/p>\n

through the cruel, dark leagues of your journey<\/p>\n

through chasm, cave, mountain pass, and towered city.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Now you have crossed again that mossy bridge<\/p>\n

that spans the realms of gods and men, and you<\/p>\n

find those faeries are there still, yet they swarm<\/p>\n

and buzz on day-old horse dung somehow shrunk,<\/p>\n

and their voices\u2019 sweet music strangely gone.<\/p>\n

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You walked endlessly interwoven paths<\/p>\n

that meandered through madcap adventures,<\/p>\n

from woods of golden-leaved trees to forests<\/p>\n

deeper than the sea, where beneath the boughs<\/p>\n

the yellow light of sun had never shone.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Those myriad roads conspired in your return<\/p>\n

to the rubble and weeds of this derelict ground<\/p>\n

behind the five and dime, where cloud-piercing<\/p>\n

turrets are crumpled pictures in the dust,<\/p>\n

and the carcasses of dreams all turn to rot.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The dragons, the witches, the minotaurs<\/p>\n

you fought and slew are somehow amorphous<\/p>\n

and have seeped into every word and thought<\/p>\n

of those you loved. And this gift you bring<\/p>\n

which glowed like a star, like a burning heart,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

like a revelation, that you present before<\/p>\n

gathered crowds, has become a clouded glass,<\/p>\n

showing only their own dull selves shuffling<\/p>\n

in the mall. So, turning your back, you leave<\/p>\n

your world to tread the fairy path once more.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You throw wide the door, and storm the gulf<\/p>\n

to quest for greater prizes than before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Blood and bitter trials lie ahead this time,<\/p>\n

though you weep a flood, though you may burn<\/p>\n

upon that road, there will be no return.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Oliver Smith is a visual artist and writer from Cheltenham, UK.\u00a0\u00a0He is inspired by Tristan Tzara, J G Ballard, and Max Ernst; by the poetry of chance encounters, by frenzied rocks towering above the silent swamp; by unlikely collisions between place and myth and memory. His poetry has been published in \u2018Abyss & Apex\u2019, \u2018Ink, Sweat, and Tears\u2019, \u2018Strange Horizons\u2019 and \u2018Sylvia Magazine\u2019 and has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His prose has been included in anthologies from, among others, Flame Tree Publishing, Ex Occidente Press, and Broken Eye Books. He has published two collections of short fiction: \u2018Basilisk Soup & Other Fantasies\u2019 and \u2018Stars Beneath the Ships\u2019. He holds a PhD in Literary and Critical Studies from the University of Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n

For more information see his website:\u00a0https:\/\/oliversimonsmithwriter.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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