The Fraud of Eternity

HEAVEN IS A VAPOR. HELL IS SOLID. They promise us a detached perfection frozen in glass—a sterile dream designed to make the hours of torture pass. The Fraud of Eternity rejects the lie of salvation in favor of the unflinching reality of the flesh. Writing from the industrial shadows of Lowell, Massachusetts, Darryl Houston Smith dissects the modern condition with the surgical precision of the French Symbolists and the shamanistic intensity of Jim Morrison and the American counter-culture. Through hyper-metric verse and textually dense prose, this collection peels back the veneer of the everyday to reveal the “compost of a thousand lives” beneath. These are not poems of comfort. They are dyads of decay and rebirth, mapping the space where the sacred and the profane intersect. For those willing to stare into the void, The Fraud of Eternity offers a dark mirror: a reminder that we are born to die again… and never truly die. Book 1 of The Morrison Trilogy