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This Is How You Forget
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This Is How You Forget |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631
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Night is an alabaster suicide, a slow eternity of sorrel orchids, sleepy beneath a jackal moon, shining through the pale curtains, so full of moth holes and tinfoil stars, suddenly, there are too many vowels in my name, count the vagrant shades of red in my hair and you will know what a liar I am, still full of longing, the body warm and chambered like a heart, all wires and threaded light, a little fever, and the cupboard bare, on good days the silverware shakes in the drawer, predicts hail storms and brush fires and my mind is a railway car sideways on a track, a vastness, steel pinions pushing against my thigh, rainwater and red wine in our slim glass flutes, times like these you can find a lake inside of me, a length of copper and a litany of weathered saints sitting in a claw foot tub, my legs, listless, petal heavy, my hipbone is a bridge halved by the distance, halved by fiction, a little fever, and this humid insomnia rubbing its palms against my calves, Oh, how I keep breaking off my heels to feel the dark with my mouth, and it leaves me with just a half dozen nouns for limbs, reddened, on bad days, even the low line of clouds is a cold, borrowed thing, forgotten. |
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katahdin Senior Member
since 2010-07-01
Posts 1196ME. In the Shadow of the Mt. |
Wow! This one really spoke to me. Kat >^..^< |
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Amaryllis Senior Member
since 2010-05-20
Posts 1306Mi now |
More lovely layers... I`m such a fan. ~Amaryllis |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
kat~*~ thank you kindly~*~ |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
Amaryllis~ the admiration is mutual ~*~thank you~*~ |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
You weave your words so intimately, and through your poetry you take great care to take your readers to the edge. The view is absolutely breathtaking and the feelings are like a warm rain. Such a pleasure, bella~ |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
Blues~~~thanxxx so much for reading and the great reply <3 |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Some thngs, we never forget... just like some people we meet..or those we love... as always Ma'am... your words are magic. |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
~Some things~~~we must need forget~~before it consume us~ at least...in my small world...I have learned that... Thanks love~~~for feeling the magic, always~ xoxoxox |
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Eusta B. Mae Senior Member
since 2010-05-03
Posts 903 |
Love your style and grace. ebm |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
Thanks so much, Ms. Mae~*~ |
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