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    <title>Sadman Zaman Khan — Essays &amp; Poetry</title>
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      <title>Poem: raindancer</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>inveigle the stars to pour adown
sword-sing with starmetal sabers
in favour of the final Stormcrown
storm-bound, the abyss lay splayed…</description>
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      <title>Poem: you are my dominant blue sky</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>elysium personified
i want to see you
insofar as my eyes draw light
i am the happiest when underneath you…</description>
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      <title>Poem: prophesier</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>zu&apos;u koraav hin hahvulon
ko krah kest, faal lok sosaal sahqon
shul viin zok zohungaar
ko krosis, ahst fent naar…</description>
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      <title>Poem: the spiral skein in flames</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>ichthyomorphic i
scride acrost the nile
swallow the bistre and bile
and i see you…</description>
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      <title>Poem: isangelous</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>where does your light not shine?
i dance at the oceanfloors in your name
i drown my sorrows, so no man can hear me exclaim
every inch of my body and soul has been desecrated…</description>
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      <title>Poem: bonemarrow</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>the myriad appendages of me fuck the orifices of sithis
i&apos;m the many angled one; a vestige of the void
i hold prisons underneath your homes
she has no hole i&apos;ll not destroy…</description>
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      <title>Poem: all my clothes are worn-out</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>i am tired of breathing
i am tired of everyone leaving
oh mother, do you dream of suicide?
how many times have you died?…</description>
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      <title>Poem: demur</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>the circumambulance of the constellations
capture me, levy - o winged serpent of the abyss
i&apos;ve sought the godforsaken stars out of the empty lakes
now i seek bliss within the gutters where no light c</description>
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      <title>Poem: avaunt</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>you spherogyral aliferous disfigurements
how your wings have eyes
gravid with starsperm
the irides bulge out…</description>
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      <title>Poem: scride</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>the effervescent hills of valtheim
allume the shrines
witness your gods flee
hell is not enough for me…</description>
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      <title>Poem: bloodflies</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>manumit me from this gyve
and the bloodflies from my womb
manumit me from this hive
and the bloodflies from my womb…</description>
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      <title>Poem: wolfsbanes</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>no, bloodgrass in savannahs
as sharp as Niðavellir&apos;s katanas
i stride onwards this adret glebe
in search of a precipice and a sign for a shoal underneath…</description>
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      <title>Poem: agonyclite</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>i pray as i stand
lay when i can&apos;t
your ivorine skin
shines crystalline…</description>
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      <title>Poem: avale</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>from your mazarine sky
upon my ichorescent prairie
the earth is now a plenisphere
no longer dull nay dreary…</description>
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      <title>The Last Dragonborn: A Case for the Cosmic Villain</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>An exploration of how Skyrim&apos;s hero is actually the greatest threat to reality. When we examine deep Elder Scrolls lore, strip away heroic framing, and evaluate what the Dragonborn actually does, a cosmic catastrophe emerges.</description>
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      <title>Beyond the Checklist: Building Relationships Through Complementarity and Growth</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Why perfect compatibility is a myth and what actually works. An introduction to the Adaptive Partnership Framework—a research-informed model for building sustainable, thriving relationships based on co-evolution, complementarity, and core meta-qualities.</description>
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      <title>The Endgame Paradox: How a Fanservice Blockbuster Accidentally Created the Most Logically Consistent Time Travel in Fiction</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>There&apos;s a deeply uncomfortable truth that time travel enthusiasts must eventually confront: Avengers: Endgame (2019) may have accidentally created the most logically sound, ethically coherent, and philosophically defensible model of time travel in mainstream fiction.</description>
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      <title>When Eternity Meets the Mortal Mind: A Reflection on Paradise</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A conversation about what comes after forever. There&apos;s a question that sometimes emerges quietly in the hearts of believers—not born from doubt, but from genuine wonder: after entering Paradise, after living there for thousands upon thousands of years, after experiencing everything possible... then what?</description>
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      <title>The Oxygen Paradox: How the Air We Breathe May Be Slowly Killing Us</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:15:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Every breath you take brings approximately 550 liters of oxygen into your lungs each day. This colorless, odorless gas sustains our cells and powers our bodies, yet it is also steadily oxidizing us from within.</description>
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      <title>Poem: cosmotellurian</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:43:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>you are the steadfast stars
made up of bones and satellite
your trenchant fringes sneer at me
don&apos;t be my inocciduous guide
godrays glitter at the…</description>
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