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Penname: Daniel Berkey
Country: United States
Favorite book: Our Lady of The Flowers, Jean Genet
Member type: Author
Member Since: Oct 3, 2006
Bio: Invested in the light, digesting dark, percolating heady brews, some caffeinated, some not. Where do the real coffee drinkers get on, that's what I want to know?

User Writings

Title/Name Date Ranking Reviews Type
Nov 24, 20069681Novel

A schizophrenic child moves through abuse into...

Dec 18, 200625410Novel

This chronicles a tentative emergence into the...

Nov 30, 20065566Poetry

a coupling at sea comes home

Mar 12, 200710104Poetry

Make the heart...just that, the heart, and let...

Jan 21, 20074946Poetry

the perpetual climb

Jan 22, 20073678Poetry

appreciate it as it scrolls the horseman's...

Oct 31, 200614404Poetry

the launch

Oct 7, 20066756Poetry

A thread is pulled into the ball, and the ball...

Nov 12, 200611284Poetry

once taken, her food beckons, teases hunger's...

Feb 14, 200711543Poetry

Leave off the fashioned gloss of the familiar...

Feb 3, 20079424Poetry

still out the wash comes a new wandering

Oct 9, 200611374Poetry

Can we meet the challenges given the choice of...

Jan 30, 200712253Poetry

set, wait, blast, consummation

Oct 31, 200614063Poetry

a sudden flight of the inner eye

Oct 31, 200610424Poetry

Inside a moment watching itself watch itself.

Nov 10, 200610784Poetry

off the mind into the source, satisfactions and...

Mar 12, 200710434Poetry

traduce the line, my children, time is come,...

Nov 11, 200612713Poetry

Imploding upon the attack, unfolding the inner...

Nov 9, 20069804Poetry

clearing house

Oct 3, 200610315Poetry

The piece elucidates a descent into a familiar,...

Oct 3, 20065488Poetry

Mother was distant, swathed in a private...

Oct 3, 20069117Poetry

To be inwardly drawn to gather the grappling...

Oct 5, 20068115Poetry

It is a delusional mind's break into light seen...

Oct 5, 20065427Poetry

It was a place of worship in a den of...

Oct 5, 20066047Poetry

I was six, and the visions began. The angel...

Oct 8, 200613333Poetry

It is the moment of knowing, of suddenly...

Oct 8, 200611885Poetry

Waking up.

Oct 8, 200610714Poetry

Mmmm, now that's a good cup of joe!

Oct 8, 200613463Poetry

Read it and tell me what you think.

Oct 8, 200612843Poetry

She is an unseen goad demanding my sleep never...

Oct 9, 20067515Poetry

The summation of frustration reeling my head...

Oct 9, 200613195Poetry

A moment of doubt springing the soul to see its...

Oct 10, 200614304Poetry

A vivid mirror not appreciated till it faded.

Oct 11, 200611254Poetry

What goes around comes around, over and over...

Oct 12, 200613483Poetry

An entreaty of the shadow.

Oct 13, 200612183Poetry

Can we create ourselves, recreate ourselves to...

Oct 14, 20067308Poetry

The journey expands on the nexus of dissolution...

Oct 14, 200615483Poetry

Summations of hunger in the life of the...

Oct 15, 200610185Poetry

Climbing into color

Oct 16, 200614135Poetry

It's an ascendancy to the descent, a mobius...

Oct 16, 200613923Poetry

The joy of being alive again after a long death.

Oct 18, 200611247Poetry

After storms' cessation what creates the need...

Oct 31, 200614283Poetry

Ineluctable ascensions to the now.

Oct 20, 200610554Poetry

Can we ever be a help beyond helping ourselves?

Oct 20, 20065017Poetry

A note for my dad.

Oct 21, 200613913Poetry

a window into soul's frost

Oct 21, 200613894Poetry

reflections moving soul into a brighter day of...

Oct 21, 200612553Poetry

a pattern of being becoming a play revisited

Oct 21, 20068456Poetry

Coming out of the ashes of addiction the source...

Oct 22, 200614263Poetry

Poured from the cup of desperation the liquor...

Oct 22, 200613293Poetry

exhortation of release

Jan 8, 200710364Poetry

Uroborus

Oct 23, 200614413Poetry

A caveman's art after the hunt.

Oct 28, 200613313Poetry

Slipped into seeing the edge.

Oct 28, 20068716Poetry

Seeing the mundane propels the extraordinary.

Oct 30, 20067026Poetry

what wood worked my wits into warm, a...

Oct 30, 200614653Poetry

no man's right to ascend the decline of another

Nov 6, 200614974Poetry

The tethering of two into one.

Nov 8, 200613603Poetry

pesky mirrors trashed

Nov 8, 20066806Poetry

feeding on sky

Nov 8, 200613763Poetry

the game

Nov 8, 20069514Poetry

One's end after weaving tapestries of life is...

Nov 8, 20067766Poetry

Jolly ho ho hum...crap digger tum

Nov 12, 20068386Poetry

assuming the grace of beginning again

Nov 15, 20069657Poetry

affectionately, for the lovers of pure...

Nov 15, 200614353Poetry

riffing on the eventide swell round the fire of...

Nov 16, 200613653Poetry

a sudden shard of seeing shrilled off...

Nov 16, 200612793Poetry

visages of a bygone madness rise to wrankle...

Nov 16, 200612003Poetry

embalming the source embalming me

Nov 16, 200615443Poetry

get high to go down and all around into the...

Nov 17, 200613074Poetry

the gated dance about the totem that is none

Nov 17, 200614043Poetry

into the scripts of light and dark the actor...

Nov 17, 200614923Poetry

commiserating with the faces of the pleroma

Nov 17, 200615273Poetry

release

Nov 17, 200613643Poetry

a coming together in the welter of separation

Nov 19, 20069325Poetry

daily supplement

Nov 21, 200613553Poetry

perpetual birth of creation's old new child

Nov 22, 200612174Poetry

coming out of the voice, body becomes light

Dec 1, 20065996Poetry

A man makes a stand, steps out, falls; all...

Dec 6, 200612333Poetry

a memoriam for a soul after an untimely manner...

Dec 12, 200613793Poetry

the entwining of three souls squeezed dry by...

Dec 12, 200612573Poetry

Oh, that old wall, like Jericho, came a...

Dec 19, 200610594Poetry

break a flower into atoms, fleet the gun of its...

Dec 24, 200611293Poetry

a bump, detritus caved my hope machine, once...

Dec 23, 200611323Poetry

the bead of need

Dec 24, 200614703Poetry

nursing fires, the consuming breeze boils it...

Dec 25, 200613843Poetry

new day, bright day, salvific sun come sweetly

Dec 27, 200611204Poetry

Let the words, just let the words...

Dec 30, 200612923Poetry

tempers of the climb flare

Dec 30, 200610964Poetry

from out of bounds one comes to know the...

Dec 30, 200611963Poetry

command ascensions to a joyful grief

Jan 1, 200712664Poetry

a moment with the muse down her inescapable...

Jan 4, 20078735Poetry

How do the pharms coil with compulsions of cock...

Jan 6, 20077346Poetry

a man and his literary muse go at it

Jan 15, 200710074Poetry

What is that moment of desire flushed that...

Jan 18, 200713283Poetry

in the face of answers, questions cutting, known.

Jan 18, 20071469NewPoetry

the soft metronome of the lack revealing all

Jan 18, 20071468NewPoetry

calm of true fury

Jan 18, 200714074Poetry

ever and always here and turning

Jan 18, 200713693Poetry

diving in flying out turning into being

Jan 19, 20076206Poetry

drawing the muse to her own beauty that is mine...

Feb 15, 20077775Poetry

so this is what happens when you eat a cheesy...

Jan 23, 200713523Poetry

assembling the table

Jan 25, 20078785Poetry

rub it, yeah, rub it good

Jan 28, 200710244Poetry

pulling pushing the enclosures we design,...

Feb 4, 200711603Poetry

a little alice in our rear view

Feb 5, 20079864Poetry

simple joy of music's magic on a heavy soul

Feb 6, 20078665Poetry

a different way of climbing into depths...so...

Feb 6, 200713753Poetry

a grab bag of baggies for a brave friend baggin...

Feb 9, 200710094Poetry

Can we hear that which can never be spoken?

Feb 10, 200713513Poetry

A new type of thinking, way of being, bereft of...

Feb 11, 200712033Poetry

Can you, will you go beyond the norm to know...

Feb 18, 200714533Poetry

the garbage has eyes

Feb 24, 20078506Poetry

Thomas Edward Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia,...

Feb 27, 20079214Poetry

after the chaos comes the clarity of the need...

Mar 13, 200711464Poetry

in a step, a bound, an eternity no physical...

Mar 28, 200714893Poetry

Stan Getz, man, and necessities calling home...

May 2, 200711793Poetry

the old story, into the certain end comes the...

May 7, 20078894Poetry

To merely be

May 14, 200710054Poetry

there cannot be sight without blindness bravely...

May 15, 200713593Poetry

On, on, steep the unbloomed flowers in the wind...

Jun 25, 20076066Poetry

not to be the fight, but to know the fight, to...

Jun 26, 20074098Poetry

who we are

Jun 27, 20076436Poetry

exhalation...inhalation

Dec 17, 200610594Short Story

A brief, blistered and somewhat severed bit of...

Dec 17, 20068036Short Story

...a precipitate of the mother poisons.

Feb 3, 200711383Short Story

can you dig the smooth, the lost gleam they...

Feb 3, 200711033Short Story

a moment with a passage laughing its blood into me

Oct 4, 200610486Short Story

One projects the anima. It's an unconscious...

Oct 4, 200610195Short Story

The time had come for completion. I was at a...

Oct 14, 200610764Short Story

Through the eyes of our eyes we see it as it...

Nov 29, 20069206Short Story

a man hooks a corner with a hooker and is...

Oct 17, 20069527Short Story

I have burnt many bridges along my journey,...

Oct 20, 200611464Short Story

It came upon a midnight weary with a focus...

Oct 20, 20068707Short Story

Ahh, the wonder of a sandwich, and the...

Oct 20, 20065059Short Story

All film actors have to face this sort of thing...

Oct 21, 20065589Short Story

What I could not do for myself someone else did.

Nov 8, 200610206Short Story

Gotta clean, man, gotta clean!

Nov 12, 20068446Short Story

attempts to delineate a single moment...

Nov 12, 200611094Short Story

cleaning up

Nov 27, 200611773Short Story

Something is needed, something unseen; although...

Nov 27, 20068335Short Story

Through storms one is released to further...

Nov 27, 200611153Short Story

One can sally forth and never see themselves...

Nov 29, 20066096Short Story

a man needs to do some cleaning

Nov 29, 20066857Short Story

a man escapes the lack of olives and finds his...

Dec 2, 20068025Short Story

Simply the glory of a liberated night.

Dec 10, 20068858Short Story

Battles of SZ (schizophrenia) dissemble a man's...

Dec 11, 200610845Short Story

A continuation of the confabulating battles...

Dec 13, 20068995Short Story

Vacation, man, vacation!

Dec 16, 20069367Short Story

Ahh, to the woods with Rig and the folks.

Jan 4, 200710275Short Story

a jog through the scenes of a man's inner needs...

Jan 13, 20078715Short Story

a typical audition scene

Jan 14, 200711233Short Story

one sudden flash out of a junky's stash for...

Jan 14, 20077517Short Story

What we want is not what we need, even if we...

Feb 4, 200710703Short Story

under the bus comes a true travellor's...

Feb 4, 200711253Short Story

Starving desperation grips my hand.

Feb 5, 200710713Short Story

A collection of realizations between drops of...

Feb 5, 20077985Short Story

a fraction of a fraction of what it was yet all...

Feb 8, 20071191NewShort Story

a stream of threads in quiet repose looking to...

Feb 9, 20079814Short Story

So I wasn't the only one, back in the days,...



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