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Blue Hydrangea
Blue Hydrangea
by Katreena Dayacap Katsafanas
"Nothing can separate love, and I know this to be true. Gathering my thoughts, journal entries, poetry and prose from the last eight years has been incredibly difficult. I held off for a very long time in fear of bringing myself through those painful memories before, during and after my mother’s death. But here it is. By finally opening up to all the change since my mom passed, I’m able to find inner peace and with that, true healing. I love you, Mom. I prayed and hoped that we would beat cancer. We fought against your disease together and gave each other strength through that unimaginable struggle. I know you are with me in spirit and there helping me rebuild my life and become open to all that has changed since I lost you. I know it is natural for me to miss you, even now. I wish we could make new memories together, but I hope you know that the memories of the time we spent together will always bring me happiness." - Tree
(c) 2025 Katreena Dayacap
5x8 Perfect Bound
ISBN: 979-8-9987102-5-4
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S+P
Σύννεφο και Πρίαπος
An American Epic Poem
Nicholas Syrianus Katsafanas
Mode: >.667
Cloud Strife and Priapus, both virtually depicted with shifting images depicted across eras—from Playstation 1 to Playstation 5, Democratic Athens to Imperial Rome—one gripping a Buster Sword that's, of course, vaguely phallic, and the other wielding a gigantic phallus that's, of course, often employed as a deadly weapon, both psychologically tortured via an ambiguous demigod-adjacent genetic lineage (Jenova and Aphrodite?)—S+P investigates, both directly and via specific character digressions, these mirror images over the course of its 20 modal cantos.
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by Nicholas Syrianus Katsafanas
Adam Metropolis and Larry Isosceles, two moderately opinionated men, engage in two extended monologues on the nature of the number 1.99999 repeating and various theories of the Western world.
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Mode: >.667
Metropolis ("The Number 1.99999 Repeating")
Echoes: 8,809
Syllables: 11,704
Approximate Self-Similarity: .753
Isosceles ("Theories of the Western World")
Echoes: 12,279
Syllables: 16,742
Approximate Self-Similarity: .733
(c) 2021, 2023, 2025 Nicholas Syrianus Katsafanas
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ISBN: 979-8-9987102-3-0
5x8 Perfect Bound 76pp
