Light Seeker

Prometheus
Michael Bilotta

“People who are unable to stand within the dark places of life,
those who are always running towards their happy places,
are the same things as candles without flames.
There is no worth in a candle without a flame,
and we only add the flame when there is darkness.
Without darkness, there would be no need for warriors and angels.
Warriors are not made because the whole world is happy
and angels were not formed because there are no demons.
Be of worth, have a flame.”

- C. JoyBell C.

Composition By:
Kay Lynn Gabaldon

November, 2015

Sleepwalker

The Magdalene Laundries
Michael Bilotta

“Was it possible that they’d crossed without realizing it,

each one rounding the corner of the aisle the other

one had just vacated at exactly the same time?”

― Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

Composition By:
Kay Lynn Gabaldon

November, 2015

Memoir of a Storyteller

the Host of the Air
Michael Bilotta

“who did I think we were.

who did I think

I could make you.

…this is the oldest mistake,

to confuse wanting

with magic. silence is the undoing

of every spell, and we are experts

in the unsaid. even now, I forget

to put us in past tense. as if

the air in this city were the same.

as if love is anything like its speaking.”

― Marty McConnell Emily Kagan Trenchard

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

August, 2015

The Second Coming

One For Sorrow
Michael Bilotta

“He wanted to break me, the me I'd made, the me I'd needed to make,
my need, mine, my whole life since I could remember.
I didn't want to hear him that night. When I was ready to change I'd change.
When life opens up before you, when you don't really know death ...
it's easy to promise yourself change.
Keeping the lines hard, the parts of me separate, was what I knew, how I lived.”

Adam Berlin

Composition By:
Kay Lynn Gabaldon

July, 2015