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  • Other Poetry Re: At Rainbow's End...

    As a poem, it's not a bad poem; there are some surprisingly nice turns of phrase, and hints of deeper meanings, la dee da, perhaps not intentional but then reading ...

    Jun 10, 2009
  • Romantic Short Stories Re: On the Virtues of Wish-Fulfilment

    Thank you! Might have to work on the coherence a little. (Sorry about your feet. XD)

    Jun 9, 2009
  • Other Poetry Re: In Fond Regret

    Memorize a box of pictures Polaroids, ill exposed Dated haircuts and specks of sunlight Captured in tender observation. I read the first three lines, pleased but not too impressed, and ...

    Jun 7, 2009
  • Other Poetry Re: But no one ever takes their socks off before sex!

    We can pass for undersized cynics in pants but naked, oh, naked we are such children I can't meet your eyes. You, with your hands cupped protectively over your lips, ...

    Jun 7, 2009
  • Romantic Short Stories Re: On the Virtues of Wish-Fulfilment

    Hannah? I love you. I realize this isn't news. But anyway. Edited!

    Jun 7, 2009
  • Romantic Short Stories Re: On the Virtues of Wish-Fulfilment

    When you get home from work tonight you're so tired your hands have finally stopped shaking, which is kind of a bitch since you went to all the trouble of ...

    Jun 1, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Southern Fire

    It occurs to me that I didn't think to save the revised version as well. *facepalm* Next time.

    May 31, 2009
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Barnacle Dreams

    Sometimes I dream barnacle dreams, and sleep uneasily on my back, nerves insisting that I should be stuck to damp wood, though I've never pressed my skin against a ship's ...

    May 31, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: Who would you be?

    BUT MY PRECIOUS ANONYMITY WHAT WILL I DO WITHOUT IT

    May 12, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: poppies -- an exitlude

    fuzzyhead – it looks like you just woke up, griping, stripping up through the layered slumber, exiting like a baby. This stanza. I adore it. I think I'd prefer bedhead ...

    May 12, 2009
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Over Tea

    Thank you both! Edits have been made, Lauren; although I didn't agree with all your changes, I did agree with most.

    May 12, 2009
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Over Tea

    HASTY CLUMSY EDITS YAY!

    May 11, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Southern Fire

    Thick ...sighs, So, I have to say, I do not understand the first line here. The ladled rust asphalt with sighs, specifically. As in the ladled rust (nom nom nom ...

    May 10, 2009
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Over Tea

    When he returns from the kitchen, the fog has shifted. Light is filtering in through the high plate-glass windows of the dining room, bright but watered down like ink or ...

    May 10, 2009
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Notes on a Plane Crash

    The idea of this is pretty brilliant, and there are some lovely, lovely lines. But I did find myself, at the end, wishing for more concrete imagery - something beyond ...

    May 5, 2009


A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
— W.H. Auden