Rook

12 tell me the lie that took it all out of your hands and dribbled your new life onto the countertops along with the topsoil of another day’s harvest. lookie ...

11 She tied your thoughts around her finger to save for later while on she went to dream & still her dreams are endless, endless, endless....

10 He was all scotch and smoke rings, all piercings and tattooed skin, the gate to my backyard like the bulldog or pitbull or just bulls in the pits of ...

9 Showers ahead shown by circles plopped into the dust on my car or the rings around rings in the lake Petrichor smells dry, strangely enough but his cologne reeked ...

8 Or maybe she flew away while no one was watching. Her mind was quite flighty, you know, and that’s the only way out of this town. Taking the train ...

This makes me happier than it actually should. It's just chugging along c:

7: Sensory Welding He was golden and silvery, coppery and iron and leaden, my metallurgy. When we kissed, he tasted gold. He was the honey that sweetly dripped, dribbled, liquid ...

I guess this is mine.

6 Light filters through the leaves rich with sweet shine as laze hangs heavy over the leather couches as we talk in familiar patterns, comfortable, a blanket of words. A ...

5 The way the soil smells and the buds peeking through, wondering at a silent threat of snow and the way no one quite believes that it is actually warm ...

4 Morning chill placid lake and scenic mountain grandeur the snapping of a twig skipping stones and sliding silt filtered sunshine green leaves and golden. Montana rocks like candy rock ...

3 Have you seen the sadness that hollowed out her eyes? She played games with fire until she got burned, and yet she kept playing. There were days she was ...

2 She has a knowledge now of so much longing, nostalgia waxing old and aging, the fine wine, made not of the fresh red grapes of Concord, but of the ...

1: Chronocentric Say that time was not something you let him pour down your spine the way the beetles crawl down leaves and splice twigs together in woven crowns like ...

This is my NaPo thread yay I've not been able to access a keyboard other than on my phone since April started, so these are all late but whatever. Posting ...