LEONARDO, A Novel
LEONARDO is a young artist's cut-throat adventure to God and fame through two distinctive lovers and a family tragedy. The novel discloses that only after one experiences a worldly and selfish love can one know the love of God. Meanwhile, it delves into the tragedy of having everything life has to offer too early.
"She has that forbearance that enables her to resist and wait. Even though she desires so much for the transitory happiness at hand, she can still turn her face away. Such pride is not in her disposition but in her soul, and thus gives her a sense of dignity and harshness. "
“You know what is cruelest about the Lord? Silence, permanence, and His permanent silence.”
QUOTES
Thesis Craft Talk at CCA MFA Writing Program
Sun and Snow
Almer He
Winter is hateful, nothing but cold
she takes away the color,
gone with all kinds of hopes,
like trampled slush,
as the sand hardens the chill.
Crows are the bald tree’s leaves
flutter and squeak
no complacence in their sound
Are they missing the autumn as I am
Do they feel sorry
for their blackness
like I’ve been tired of permanence
in the lust for things that won’t last
to last
Why the apocalypse waits so long
as the autumn has gone
the epilogue is cruel for being late,
in the days when we were happy
I’m a prisoner
Jail is the past
where diamonds blaze
like summer
gold
overthrow the sun
Either they cheat in Bible
or heaven is in chaos
and leaves no light on
Now you know why angels dressing white
God is stingy after all
You gotta borrow fire
from your old warm
hell
He’s sweeping the dustless street
glowing like a bulb in the daylight
outside my drowned window
blue and intact
I vote down the scheme of suicide
in dream, but wake up and find
I was dead