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Nightmares: The Halloween Edition
By R Bremner
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Nightmare #43
The dissolute phantasm summons
On a dark dimly lit country lane;
Its hot, sticky breath on my palpating chest
And its knee to my groin has me down on the ground
Writhing and rolling in the stinking dust,
Sickened by that sickly grin...
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R Bremner
R. Bremner, a former cab driver, truck unloader, computer programmer, and vice-president at Citibank, lives in Glen Ridge, NJ, USA, with his beautiful sociologist wife, their brilliant son, and their excitable puppy Ariel. A regular contributor to Poets Online and the Poetry Super Highway live radio show, he has appeared in International Poetry Review, the Journal of Formal Poetry, the Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Anthology, Yellow Chair Review, Oleander Review, the Mensa Bulletin, Paterson Literary Review, Passaic Review, Turbulence (UK), Southlit (South Asia), Shot Glass Journal, Red Wheelbarrow Anthology 7, Ancient Paths, Crab Fat, Every Writers’ Resource, Sanitarium (UK), the Society of Classical Poets, and ten eBooks. He reads at many venues regularly, and is often mistaken for the mythical Jersey Devil. He has traveled extensively, especially to Sri Lanka, the birthplace of his wife. He likes you to visit him at http://www.pw.org/content/r_bremner .
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