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the song of a roamerAnd darling, I've been gone for a long, long time. Your eyes
are still that steely gunpowder blue, but your hair has grown long,
and there's a softer curve to your waist
and freckles on your shoulder I don't remember,
and I think,
God.
What have I missed?
You tell me about the weddings
the divorces. You tell me
about the babies
and the losses, and how last year
your dog died--easy, in his sleep--
and there is a hollow lack in you,
a space reserved for things that won't come back.
Long ago, was there a space like that
for me?
When did it collapse--when did it
fold in on itself
under the weight of things that matter more?
I tell you about Cambodia. I paint
the jungles for you, breathe the crushing wet heat
of it into your lungs. I tell you
about the kids in Africa
and how the heat is different there--
belligerent and fierce.
I tell you how much you would have liked Barbados,
and how much you would have hated Rome.
And I remember all the things I
can't tell you--all the things I don't hav

pyrite girlNote: Pretty please listen to the audio version for the full effect.
you noticed things
little things that came sneaking slyly in
smiling crooked like good children
with bad deeds freshly done.
of course you loved her all the same,
your little lighthouse among the tendrils of east coast fog
she tasted like mineral water
concrete
new pennies
and you lived in soft, sweet depression
intertwined
gazing out at a broken world from a tenth-story window
and breathing in the cigarette smoke.
your little pyrite girl
bright eyed and dark mouthed
a tiny dirty moon, dragged through the gray city snowmelt
and left to dry in the glare of rooftop suns
"who would live here?"--
musings from the tenth floor
and you knew the answer.
broken cities feed on broken souls
and even they need angels.

.:Sweet Everythings Two:.
jumping at the light, consumed, by *enigmaticsmile
Wonderful words
from a
wonderful person.

#723, by =holyolyoly
I read and adored this so long ago,
and just found it again.

The Gold Watch, by ~Ja-mes
It starts with a bang and a snap
and pulls you along
for a breakneck ride.

sunshine streaming, by =HillsOfMyst
Soft and sweet
and sexy.

fifty shades of blackout, by ~flawedfairytale

Beauty from the ashes, perhaps?

Date a girl who draws, by ~Enn-Chan
There's so much heart here.

Tips for the Messy Writer, by `LiliWrites
Something different.
Messy writers unite.

A Portrait of Suburbia, by *sydnerella

"Deb has a big gaping hole in her f

turning over bucketsperhaps it isn't beautiful,
lying halfway underwater;

pouring your palladium hopes
down your hands
into buckets
looking full of shale and broken glass
        half lighting whiskey-paper on fire
with that sun tossing in your chest

and all of you rattling
in this thin-skinned pineapple percussion,
        the things you're so very sure of, sweltering under
callouses, under sea-
        a kaleidoscopic mass of stinging cider-riviera
twisting into your human frame;

but when i say something of protests
you break in,
        with too many pinecones waking in your chest, saying,
how lucky how
lucky we are
to be alive

Blow Up The Sun"Blow Up The Sun"

At last I have accomplished the impossible

So glad I have relinquished the inevitable

Don't scamper trying to outrun the light

I have blown up the sun and all of its might

I blew it to bits, tiny fragments of stars

Scarring the skies from wherever you are

Tore it to shreds; an explosion so loud

Darkness is the aftermath of what will be found

No more heat to beat down on your fragile necks

No more sweat to wet your beautiful heads

The sun makes me angry, can't you tell by this rhyme?

Agitated and irritated and often very blind

I can get vitamins from the store that rests on my corner

And honor the moonlight from

all that hasn't happenedPretty please listen to the audio.
i want to remember
the rumbling piano baritones
high notes like hailstones--your hands
running soundless scales.
i want the summer seas
november tides
the vineyard overlook, the olive
trees and sunwarmed coasts.
remember
we filled the empty pages
with whole notes and halftones,
oceans and lovesongs.
we lived, we live
inkstained and drowning
through nights thick with words
and days shot with sound.

The FountainThere were sixteen tall windows. She'd counted them over and over when she was small, her chubby finger outstretched as she spun in tiny circles. Eight walls, sixteen windows, thirty-two black curtains—the arithmetic of her childhood.

"Eight window seats, Daddy. Eight buttons on each—sixty-four. I counted."

The fountain stood dry and dead-center in the middle of the black and white tiles. Eight sides, eight lion-mouth spouts. Sixteen limestone mermaids poised gracefully around the edge. Four thousand and ninety-six blue tiles. Five hundred and twelve white.

And two doors. Always the two doors, huge and solid and radiating a sense

ShayI open the door and the apartment is dark and musty cold--that antiseptic not-lived-in kind cold. "Shay." I fumble for the light switch, then hang my keys on the hook with practiced finality. Door locked, backpack dropped, and I'm in the living room. "Shay." Nothing.
There's piles of assorted belongings everywhere: books resting on crumpled sweaters--a belt and a plush toy--empty picture frames on dusty shoeboxes--glass jars full of colored oil. It forms a trail, sharp-cornered and lazy, to the bedroom at the back, and that's where I find you sleeping belly-down on the floor.
I should wake you up and make you dinner because I'm sure you forgot to fix yourself anything, but for a minute I lean on the doorjamb and look at you. Your shirt hiked up a little bit around your narrow waist to small to hold up all but the skinniest of skinny jeans. You're always been thin, almost dangerously so, without seeming to try. Your hair curls in tendrils all over your shoulders, down your back, across

PilkunnussijaHere's what I think:
There's a certain joy in not doing this face-to-face. For one, I don't have to leave my apartment and I have the quiet company of my goldfish and my goldfish alone. (I don't like people, which is why I love books. You can understand that.) For another, I don't have to see your presumably crestfallen and injured attitude when I tear apart the prose you cried and bled and sweated over for weary nights on end. But really the best parts are those uninterrupted hours alone with your manuscript and the shred of you that lies inside. It's a small shred, but an important one. It's the one that tells me who you are and what you think and how you feel and I never have to look at you and be disappointed when the real thing doesn't come up to scratch. As I sit there, un-tensing and re-tensing and tense-shifting and shift-entering (and damn it, wishing English were like German so I could get rid of those clunky space-wasting n-dashes--oh, damn there they are again) I feel li

A Love Story in Four Actsi.
     I loved a blacksmith once, back when the sand still clogged up my soul. It was only far after that I began to love the desert too.
ii.
     Underneath the casual noise--glass on wood, heat-smothered conversation, worn cards slapped down in careful triumph--there was this low, thrumming quiet that wouldn't be broken. He spoke in sepia undertones. "We're getting out."
iii.
     Hot iron smells like hot blood, like blood that's been poured out under the white Arizona sun. It's something you don't forget easy, like the taste of whiskey or the plasma patterns left on your eyelids after watching fire all night. It sticks.
v.
      My childhood was fed on medical books, and I've got this pain right behind my eyes and I wonder if this is what it feels like being lobotomized. Of course the brain has no nerve endings, but the hurt has to manifest itself somewhere.

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lovesongif you've got the time, sweetheart,
i've got the love
and no one needs to know the whies
or hows—
the whens are up to you of course—
and we can be beautiful together
melodic, even
and if we happen to be tone-deaf, well
who cares?
there are intervening seas, love, but we are oceans of ourselves,
and through tides and inlets and streams rushing headlong
from the peaks
to fall in veils and land catsoft
and tumble through the subterranea
collecting gold dust and all the
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ju

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you can tell me anything
I mean that you can tell me anything
and I will hang tight on your words
follow the curve of them up and down
I will be the enraptured audience you
(perhaps)
always wanted
or never wanted
and I will cling to you
lostpuppylike
just to listen.

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.:Found Poetry:.by *disrhythmic

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©2012-2013 *disrhythmic

evil men live
in leisure.
cynics
stratagem above
the most tranquil
belles lettres.

feat not, gentle reader.

Let us divide
the desert.

peace
implies a distinction
of great scarcity

=Laitma Oct 1, 2012 General Artist

Hahahah, woooow, that's really neat! 8C

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*disrhythmic Oct 1, 2012

Thank you! <3

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~tisserande-d-encre Oct 1, 2012 Student Writer

Uuuhhh... This is cool

I like how it turned out

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*disrhythmic Oct 1, 2012

Gracias, Romita. <3 <3 <3

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~tisserande-d-encre Oct 1, 2012 Student Writer

Un placer hermana

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*0hgravity Oct 1, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

oh, I like those last two stanzas.

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*disrhythmic Oct 1, 2012

Thanks.

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*0hgravity Oct 2, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

welcome

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~palaeorigamipete Oct 1, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

yaaaay!!!!

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*disrhythmic Oct 1, 2012

<3

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