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| Original Title | 逸見猶吉詩集 |
|---|---|
| Author | 逸見 猶吉 |
| Genre | Modern Short Fiction |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | A nameless wanderer traverses desolate winter plains where crows circle skeletal birches and frost etches prison bars into the horizon. Harsh winds carry echoes of violence—a horse’s phantom whinny, a bullet’s ghostly wound—as the narrator grapples with fragmented visions: peat-stained hands clawing at frozen earth, faces warped by dementia, and a sky bleeding ultramarine. Rebellion simmers beneath ice; dreams fracture into screams. The land itself feels alive—a merciless entity with ribs of sagaren wood and rivers choked by rust. Is this purgatory or prophecy? Between iron train cars and crumbling brickworks, the wanderer bares teeth at phantoms, their journey a feverish dance between annihilation and defiance. Whispers of Bering’s icy tides and slaughterhouse winters haunt each step. What truth festers in Ultramarine’s depths? Only the crows know—and they scatter, laughing, into storms that taste of blood and unsung hymns. |
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