Mike Bonikowsky
@michael_again
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Giver of cares. Author of “Red Stuff” and “The Shepherd of Princes” (Solum Literary Press).
Melancthon, Ontario
Joined February 2016
A dozen years or so I wrote a story. Then I gave up on it until some friends got a hold of it and made me write it again, and again, and again, until it became a novel. Last summer some more friends, at Solum Literary Press, decided they want to help it become a book. Here it is:
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I hear a voice that answers it Saying “Stay what you are: A creature among creation. Be small among wonders Known only by your beloved. Be pierced and lifted up Be forgotten, and remembered.”
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I hear a voice throughout the land Calling, “Come up higher Be more than what you know you are: Brighter, more beautiful. Sing without opening your mouth Make without creating Kill yourself and live forever.”
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One of my favourites in a genre I call “I have no idea what’s happening but the writing is so good it doesn’t matter.”
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Happy Canadian Thanksgiving from the Bonikowsky family!
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Definitely a Middle-Aged Man because this is like candy to me now.
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Today I am forty years old, and am given again as gift what I could never earn. God break my heart open wide enough to receive it.
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My book is in my childhood library and i have no words.
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Forty years old and what am I? Just a pocketful of shards In the old coat God wears walking In the cool of the day. And I don’t know why he does it But he still puts his hand Into the pocket where I am Though it comes out bloody every time.
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Celebrating Father’s Day by going around the house and turning off all the lights.
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“And if there were no way into God / I never would have lain in this grave of a body / For so long”
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This is probably my favorite print by @theworkofbees from my novel. I love how the Bobcat seems to have a halo which so perfectly captures one of the major themes of the book, that ordinary work done for God becomes a sacred vocation.
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