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Literature
Salvation
Open window, fog seeps in; television color dances, lamplight struggles
to make this place look like more than a memory but fails/
In a sideways, backwards world that should be in black-and-white, r&b plays
Papers folded upon the kitchen table, books in the livingroom, magazines;
all whispering, none shouting, sleepy grey fog slipping/
I gave up ash for Lent, wore a clown mask to church and howled; it was the wrong church.
I was only dreaming, I think, but there were no constellations to console in the roofless sky
I walked back to my sideways house and watched TV without sound.
(Remember to check all the closets.) (Ignore the fog.)/
Literature
As I inaudibly crumble
The first thing that I can assure you of is the fortitude of my soul: I am a pact so strong that even the hurricane which caused my house to tear apart couldn't budge me. So strong, that even the earthquake that cracked the face of my school building couldn't chip me. So strong, that no amount of tidal waves could crash and break into my walls, my being. I am a pact made of several precious trinkets, letters and colors bound fervently. My frame has become a watchtower and my spirit, its sentry; I fulfill set duty. I am a pact so strong that I crave for certain commotion over what it is that I am, I wear and bare my vanity. I am a thrill seeke
Literature
Winterbleeder
Curled around alpine legs and caught
within hollows and inclines of pale skin,
she carries her endless winter always.
It settles upon frosted shoulders and
caps heavy-lidded eyes, clinging close to
the darkness of each snow-flecked breath;
lingering above cracked lips and the
remnants of a long forgotten warmth.
But darling, don't we deserve each other?
(She'd been Spring's child before Winter's whispers.)
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Powerful and poignant.