Justin Ehrlich was born in Essex in 1985 and has a degree in Philosophy. He writes poetry and short fiction dealing with themes of death, insanity and the supernatural.
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- The Victorian Web: An Overview
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- The Paul Rumsey Homepage
- art of the beautiful-grotesque - Home
- themystic's posterous - Art of the Mystic Otto Rapp
- Home page for Russian symbolist painter Denis Forkas Kostromitin
- The Hermetic Library at Hermetic.com
- Julian Jaynes Society | Exploring Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind Theory Since 1997
- Synesthesia Garden - a weird art + style blog |
- The Official Website of Laurie Lipton
- DNAche
Maxwell Bodenheim 1892 - 1954
Insanity
Like a vivid hyperbole,
The sun plunged into April's freshness,
And struck its sparkling madness
Against the barnlike dejection
Of this dark red insane asylum.
A softly clutching noise
Stumbled from the open windows.
Now and then obliquely reeling shrieks
Rose, as though from men
To whom death had assumed
An inexpressibly kind face.
A man stood at one window,
His gaunt face trembling underneath
A feverish jauntiness.
A long white feather slanted back
Upon his almost shapeless hat,
Like an innocent evasion.
Hotly incessant, his voice
Methodically flogged the April air:
A voice that held the clashing bones
Of happiness and fear;
A voice in which emotion
Sharply ridiculed itself;
A monstrously vigorous voice
Mockingly tearing a life
With an unanswerable question.Hollowed out by his howl,
I turned and saw an asylum guard.
His petulantly flabby face
Rolled into deathlike chips of eyes.
He bore the aimless confidence
Of one contentedly playing with other men's wings.
He walked away; the man above still shrieked.
I could not separate them.
