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Demeter

  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #16 it's times like this, when I'm already far, that there's glamour and affection in how my elbows ache carrying milk up Fulwood Road. meeting an orange cat on the ...

    Apr 17, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #15 the musty, vivid ground resonates so firmly with the trees above that dancing leaves, veined with frivolity, beckon everything in between not to pick a side, but a silent ...

    Apr 16, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #14 the relationship of mace and nutmeg is how we should see people. mace - the scorching red, notice me, if you look hard you'll see the good stuff. nutmeg ...

    Apr 15, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #13 everything can be a problem in this part of the world where the word of the day is hypozeuxis and hot chocolate is too hot and bras cut into ...

    Apr 13, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #12 I've done this before. I've dragged the same opinions through my porous consciousness, kneaded them, watered them, called them gold. gold like shiny, valuable, becoming against ivory skin and ...

    Apr 13, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #11 icicles sharpen their ends, ready to hold their fort; if you cry, you are out. birds migrate to the south, return tickets booked; V for victorious homecoming. the last ...

    Apr 12, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #10 the first notes of the shiny saxophone are welcoming in their familiarity as you climb the stairs up to the balcony, the airy jewel in the face of the ...

    Apr 11, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #9 how can I know 114 words for snow but not one to describe your face at dawn, how our thoughts entwine to form an invisible fishtail braid, one I ...

    Apr 9, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #8 when I ask about crowds, strange fruity scents, last weekend your face becomes the spinning beach ball of doom (you're that old school) seeking, searching for the right words ...

    Apr 8, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #7 you wear whispers round your neck like an exquisite scarf, a lovechild of sunset and thunder - under the earth you tread are geysirs of birthright, bursting free on ...

    Apr 7, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #6 did I find something I'd lost or was it just you calling into the night? in this limbo between sleep and awake, I mistake amethysts for kisses and keys ...

    Apr 6, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #5 these cobbles are lined with pretended innocence: hushed tones, downcast eyes (then a sly look from under the lashes, a necklace on a bounteous chest) these branches are beggar's ...

    Apr 5, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #4 the tale tells that sometimes, if you are walking at night (or early morning, before the blackbird has sung) and meet a lake that is exhaling wispy strands of ...

    Apr 4, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #3 waltz has the potential to slowly slice you open from hairline to tiptoe, to plaster you on the mirrored walls of the ballroom while spectators evaluate only the feathers, ...

    Apr 3, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: merlot footnotes

    #2 if I walk and you follow, can you honestly say what I want to hear? because I've seen how your eyes well up at the mention of gardens, and ...

    Apr 2, 2017


I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
— William Shakespeare