Wild by Alexey Adonin
hope I
i can tell you i’m failing this simulation
and that’s what you might expect
but such an oversight cannot be true
for there is no world of ours unspoken
and no honest word for this
strange object
in our verse of survival
in an accident among thieves
you’re dreaming and i’ve entered
a lost soldier remembering himself in battle
questioning how at all this was possible
he’d experienced death
yet somehow survived
my life is a reflection of your deepest secret
you are both your mother and my friend
we are dreaming this dream together
you see
such an arbitrary idea like ours
is the concept of an elaborate alternate
tensioned by the identity of the metahuman
and its rage against nature
life will once again evolve into its most authentic
over time
ove r t im e
0 v e r t 1 me
i watch the deer as they eat from the trees
About the author:
Lorin Drexler is an American poet, fiction writer, musician, songwriter, and music producer. Currently residing in Mesa, Arizona, and originally from Chicago, he graduated from Columbia College with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing. His work has appeared in tNY Press, LitroNY, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Apocrypha and Abstractions, Black Elephant, and Maudlin House. Lorin was also an awarded recipient in the 2019 Tempe Writing Contest.
In the artist’s words:
An abstract-surrealist artist, Alexey Adonin has dedicated over one and a half-decade to convey his vision of hidden otherworldly realms. Alexey believes that art is not only a way to express ourselves but also a unique key to unlocking the knowledge of the hidden world. In his creative endeavor, he tries to apply a more philosophical approach and to hint at the mystical origin of all things. Alexey mostly strives to get away from banal copying of reality, preferring instead to create one of his own—something that somehow reflects his inner world.