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i'm still a myth, but have these.
devil's advocatefeasting on an angel’s carcass i
thought i tasted moonbeans & sunlight
mixing as one
forgive me, my son
i forgot my touch was enough
to shape the water’s callmocking the mother as she cries
pushing life into the world
i spurn life, i hate love, it burnsand the angels come to me
the eyes of children shaped into swords
i’ve seen eons, but i
still haven’t got the wordsit tastes sweet, like spoonfuls of honey
mixing with the silver saccharine syrup of a
siren’s laughtersuccle now, my sweet, have your life’s blood
flowing free
from the wrists of the mother moon, and
all her many lovers
i forgot to hear their names
you come from many mothers
but...
yardclear memoirmy reasons wither
in love and thick trees,
wind waking wasps to flight;I fight another fancy
dream about a girl I knewclimbing up to nest
in paper honey catacombs,she smelled like summer
bees and blank verse and our worst
conversations covered contemplations
of the way we often wander
through our lives like living longer
isn't even worth the weight
of carrying our bodies back
to shore,and I'm sureone day she drowned in a flat tomorrow
sunrise sneaking through clouded morning mist,but maybe I should have stayed
or told her how her neckbones
made a perfect v
or how all I could think about
was lingering past midnight
in the patio moon,
cast...
symmetric huntgrowing web of
orbits threaten,
orders left behind
for no man.
sharp as intellect
the lines construct,
constrict,
and damn.kiss the plan
goodbye,
stalk and grant
expiry
with abandon.
not a movement random,
but precise.treasured heart,
beckon the knife.
malestrombull in a china shop,
i am obsessed with
the word obsessed.walking down the isle,
isolated in pillars
my voice is a box
made of river water.quiver loudly,
the cotton of my shirt
clings to the fat
of my tummy
and i am very much
painfully aware
of these
heavy cells.cellulite i(o)n
a mobile phone,
the light of cells
is both
a blinding shock.and shining lock.
glimmer the u-shaped
at the top of a coffer,
these sails
sure a caulk ring
in that box
i was talking about
earlier.male storm
full of homophones,
this maelstrom
is off-kilter
when princes
are chief
in cheap particles.
once upon a dreama dark warm-lit room: the stillness
of breathing each other’s air
he held her tight and my heart ached,
a fragment of reality flitting by as i rememberyour hair tickling my neck and laughing apologies,
i go back to soaking in this made-up memory
tender palms stroked her back like
yours did mine, a long time ago,
murmured ideas of affection
seep through the cracks of closed doors,
and i started to melt with her -
i woke up to open windows and bitter
winter air, nostalgia rising like bile
in my throat, and crying as if he
had been mine
inevitably and just when did you think I disappeared?
the radio was tuned low, not off
the sounds were gentle, listen softly
the waves of innovation rise in the pool of humanity
and I have touched the tip barely; but blessed be that journey I took
for I learned many a thing in that moon cycle
and I look to the horizon as I mold it to my liking the crisp scent of change is on the wind,
and it excites me to see what it will hold -
just what will it become?
...
UnspecifiedI still see her,
the ghostly vision of what once was
the figure that shaped
a universe for me.Dark hair
and eyes a subtle shade of sunet
stare out at me
from corners of memory
that refuse to subside.Whispering words to empty spaces,
wondering
if stars can transmit the signal
from my lips to her skin,
if she still recalls
the sound of my voice.Endless questions hang unanswered,
the chaos of a heart
unsure of where it longs to beat,
and I exist
only in a blackened space
she chooses not to see.Somewhere between the cynic
and the dreamer,
I swing from dark to light
trying to decipher
why a love alleged to be so strong
could be abandoned
so eas...
did i have the guts?it's not glamorous
eating every meal
from a vending machine,
barely hanging on between
doses and barely being
able to pry my mouth open
because i'm shaking
and i'm heaving and i'm
constricting but i'm
fine.
Looking into the Bell JarThis lid is screwed on, I’m stuck
in my head, but I can’t touch
its contents or locate where tears
activate. Words float in my body,
imprisoned in the pages between
brick exterior and wallpapered room.Outside, trying to look into the room,
yet also inside, looking through, stuck
between stomach and mouth, between
pen and paper. Losing my sense of touch
to become an angel as I plant my body
in the snow. A bottled river of blue tears,stale, drips mechanically onto paper, tears
become clipped roses that sit in a room:
I detach something ugly from my body
and turn it into beauty that can be stuck
in a jar, contained in a place I can’t touch
or...
2018 2 8 2307 (NaHa 7)aged eyes heavenward
a quiet resignation
he whispers goodbye
twenty (lockout)and after the lockout
i found myself twenty dollars
richer, at the expense of
a night in a stranger’s roomhe’d kissed me before, i just
stopped caring, honestly —
so when he asked on my birthday can we
make out i said sure
idc anymore so strange, it’s on the
twentieth, just like
mine, but he’s much
older and it’s only
seven days
before the boy’si wonder what he’s
doing, nowadays —
heard he spent a few days
out of the country, and
had funi hope so because all i’ve found
is indifference
and lockouts
maybe the light is not benevolentroomblood drifts
a thunder of smoketipped flickers
and absent-minded notes (hickory,
california oak) left over from the dayand i dream in meta,
pulse myself to the dry drums
and wet humming of a heartbeatstranger in a cage stirringpale green into light;
she draws back the lining of the worlda curtain of sorrow, a curtain of flood
waters and raging fire, figurative
and literaltomorrow is untouched, indented
but there are truths in the ways we fractureand how can it be
anything but painfulwhen we are so repulsive?
the wizardeffortless skeumorph
of a smooth-slick interface
is a chronicle of facades
the farce in a smile
with too many teeth
to manage the chew
of unrendered fat --
manufactured to swallow
the reality of how one eats
when no one is around
so real
the blind man can read
every insecurity in
a voice heaving
and mountainous
as braille.you will push the hands away
as if they mean to strangle
not to understand
and they will withdraw
curling in as paper edges
in a fire -- your resistance
to unravel so aflame;
the anger roars forth
from a mouth open, pink
warm and unremoved --
the truth beyond perception
is you absolute.
give me more lovelies to love?
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Comments: 25
toxic--sunrise In reply to hypermagical [2019-05-13 20:14:35 +0000 UTC]
It's a great phrase. One of my favorites.
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0hgravity [2019-01-24 19:33:40 +0000 UTC]
quite late but thanks for the feature. always humbled.
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toxic--sunrise In reply to 0hgravity [2019-01-25 08:32:32 +0000 UTC]
existing is hard. so, really, never late
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toxic--sunrise In reply to chromeantennae [2018-11-27 02:25:04 +0000 UTC]
always
i missed everyone's writing here, and i'm taking the time to take it in and adore it just a bit more. only fair that i share the things i find.
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toxic--sunrise In reply to RavensQuill [2018-11-19 02:40:36 +0000 UTC]
I'm waist deep in merging a 12-year old story to worldanvil.com/dashboard/ in an attempt to stop rewriting the same 15 or so scenes with different people.
so, in all, pretty okay.
how's you?
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RavensQuill In reply to toxic--sunrise [2018-11-20 00:07:54 +0000 UTC]
Oh wow, that sounds like a project! I've never heard of WorldAnvil. It looks interesting. So are you working a group?
Glad to hear it.
I'm.. well... alive, living, lost but trying?
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toxic--sunrise In reply to RavensQuill [2018-11-20 02:16:41 +0000 UTC]
It's amazing. And I've got some help from a couple friends, but for the most part it's me, makin' everything complicated. an attempt is better than anything
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RavensQuill In reply to toxic--sunrise [2018-11-20 02:22:16 +0000 UTC]
Well yay! Lol.. complicated is just part of the journey, perhaps?
Very true. I've been far worse. Wallowing in nothingness is far more maddening.
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thebalefulprimal In reply to toxic--sunrise [2018-11-19 05:00:11 +0000 UTC]
I saw this comment, went to the site, and I am in love
Thank you for the feature, my friend!
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toxic--sunrise In reply to thebalefulprimal [2018-11-27 02:22:21 +0000 UTC]
Yea, world anvil is great. I adore it.
Always <3
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