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Darius McCaskey

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Born

in Rockford, Illinois, The United States

September 09, 1980

Website

http://dariusmccaskey.wordpress.com

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Vaygh

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Poetry

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Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, Neil Peart ...more

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Darius McCaskey is an award-winning author, essayist, and poet from Rockford, Illinois. His previous work includes Angst & Wrath, a collection of his early poetry, as well as editing and supplemental writing for the Contagion role-playing game. Mr. McCaskey has been featured multiple times in Voices, the literary magazine of Rock Valley College (where Darius is pursuing his undergraduate degree). ...more

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New Poem: “In Winter”

In winter, our lives rearrange.

The light shifts

and we scratch away our mange.

In winter, our days shrink.

The light shifts

and we have nary a moment to think.

In winter, our pain expands.

The light shifts

and we struggle to meet demands.

In winter, our hope grows.

The light shifts

and we hear echoes of barbeques in the snows.

In winter, our hearts melt.

The light shifts

and we learn to love the hands we’re

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“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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“If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.”
― Neil Peart

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