<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Cheap Light Books]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cheap Light Books]]></description><link>https://www.cheaplightbooks.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 08:10:42 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.cheaplightbooks.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Demolishing Charlie McCarthy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Poor little Charlie McCarthy Dust collecting friend He never made to move you So you sat like that instead A prop for every doorway Of time possession She arrives right now, exploits you And you willingly let her in -thisisaaron (from TimeTrap, originally written 9.25.19)]]></description><link>https://www.cheaplightbooks.com/post/demolishing-charlie-mccarthy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fe0caf57c1b4d9876728a0</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:18:32 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>akubacak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrow]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve gotten Tripped up on my Piano fantasy Frank O’Hara Wishing that I were her I gave her strength And power over every part of me But now I’m not so sure It pains me The poisonous point This separation of sense You reach for me Through time and the distance Of time all I know Is that I still Have his hand to hold on to And I’m trying to Not let go If you’re there somewhere In the other dimension I’m just letting you know I stopped descending staircases Long ago I learned that to be an...]]></description><link>https://www.cheaplightbooks.com/post/arrow</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fc7b8e4f7ebdc9f6a5dfe9</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 11:47:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>akubacak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Witch's House]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deep in suburbs labyrinthia She lives on a corner lot Tangled in weeds laureline Behind an askew fence   It works for a witch’s house It works for a witch’s house   Yellow cactus flower cuculine I thought winter froze to death Comes springing back miraculously       Behind her rusty Honda civic   It works for a witch’s house It works for a witch’s house   Her sidewalk’s graveyard for branches Grasses humificate her eaves Piles of pots terra cotta House her every forlorn seed   It works for a...]]></description><link>https://www.cheaplightbooks.com/post/witch-s-house</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fb7a273587ab080fb83548</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 17:37:16 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>akubacak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digging a Hole]]></title><description><![CDATA[First rain of the Summer Comes louder, now, than thunder I start to dig this hole While ducks scatter away (Raindrops fall down To wash it all away) And                 It is Another man down                                              It’s just Another man down                                                            It’s just Another man down Taking to my digging With a rusty spade and shovel The right spot for the pond By the eyes of the headless maidens (and the dirt peels back Like...]]></description><link>https://www.cheaplightbooks.com/post/digging-a-hole</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fb11eb6d919e5ce8727199</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:09:01 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>akubacak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words Without End]]></title><description><![CDATA[I can only imagine what you thought of me Some strange, affected blogger bloke Chiming in from desolate-hunger side of restoration-resentment On your site of doll curiosity.   This strange, wanna-be-artist-person-poet-thing Embarrassingly awkward striking out Thinking there was something for me in the public sphere of popularity.  Ha!   They say meeting your heroes should not be done Writing your hero’s, taking on their guises, finding your own guises I found some.  Questioning with strong,...]]></description><link>https://www.cheaplightbooks.com/post/words-that-never-end</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fa6e456d919e5ce871374b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 22:25:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>akubacak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Beginning Interlude]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beginning of Truth-Telling Rocks do hide golden friends, Ones sworn never existed Binding you to a base of stone While mind churns out assumed horrific realities --- systems Does this thesis work test after test? Have we proven ourselves interconnected,            that mind bows to ego, puts forth hate, puts out life and snuffs out peaceful being?    Should I change my name to sacrifice fame? I’m drawn into my stomach Because this schizophrenic discord should be put right Here’s the journey,  ...]]></description><link>https://www.cheaplightbooks.com/post/a-new-beginning-interlude</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fa33d72528aeae01479fdd</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 18:16:28 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>akubacak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effigy Tumuli (Buffalo Rock)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Effigy mounds                 burn to trump rail buffalo stone and go Connection  Passageway                  clouds accumulate in artful ways, 											every movement --a picture to take Eyes that bind seizes trouble to take                 and release Snake shadow slithers off                                                   Startling ways of seeing is turning off                                          Media's thirst for story Desiring worship                                            ...]]></description><link>https://www.cheaplightbooks.com/post/effigy-tumuli-buffalo-rock</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f909d8356085c640501512</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 21:05:06 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>akubacak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mission]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mission, their mission Gatekeepers to good Mission, their mission What is good What is good  Smash their bad on me What is good What is good Rounding-turvy-frozen-ground I’m breaking    he’ll be their king, let him be their king, let them cheer their king the one who'll never surrender holdouts flying headlong into the wind falling under the avalanche slipping   Bang a tangle  he’s the king, Bang a tangle He’s the king   Realizing entrapment's not speaking   Friends, we say, there’s peace in...]]></description><link>https://www.cheaplightbooks.com/post/mission</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f653af7b1c42fb24f6131d</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 19:42:43 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>akubacak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Way to Two Medicine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Call to awaken a storyteller, calls to awaken me On the way to Two Medicine, Driving Coffee in hand, basking in the glory of daylight – but then, The weather gets overcast and moody.   Aspens are ceremonial sentinels holding secrets of ages past Summer landscape becomes cold and snowy The river in the heart of the aspen trees Feels forlorn, but healing.   Lying a broken wafer on the cradle of life, The trembling mouth of reality sinks in— “most of Waterton’s been shut down for the season”...]]></description><link>https://www.cheaplightbooks.com/post/on-the-way-to-two-medicine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f64e1b90b4365cb8637fd9</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 19:19:58 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>akubacak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electric Emancipation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Racing for safety, for what was known Makes me bold with longing bliss Racing for safety, from atom’s home, Away from their devouring Elitism. Sing, the body, Sing the body electric Breathe forth song, Electrify story From the dark mouth of stunned, dead sleep.   You will rise, sucking back what you lost With a bear grass reed!   Ice melting, Twitching.   Feeling Sun-break   Melting, moving  Stumbling...   Fierce wind, Stirs free will to wake, Rivals tyranny  Strikes again, Changes chord...]]></description><link>https://www.cheaplightbooks.com/post/electric-emancipation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f6403f7b1c42fb24f5eb1f</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 18:20:40 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>akubacak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artificial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Begin to read,   Not all             thinks                        can be thought for you   Snap off your AI friend                                         when Insults breathe wind,                                      shaping my body                                                         creative again.   Resurrect          mountain songs, From changeling woman’s                                             surging                  separation Devouring my senses, path of should              ...]]></description><link>https://www.cheaplightbooks.com/post/artificial</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f63d41ddf80d7e38c89f4d</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 18:07:07 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>akubacak</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>