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  • Three People and Falling Stars

    Three People and Falling Stars She knelt down and poured words though her fingers like sand They spread out over the liquid ground that became the sky And they slid ...

    4 min read
  • Road Trip

    Road Trip Road out before me, Hand out the window, Sitting beside you, I’m not the driver, Thoughts on other things, Not this long stretch of flattened land. Just came ...

    2 min read
  • To My Muse

    To My Darling Muse Flame, my tormentor, stalker, taunter, You are just out of reach, Stretched and jeering face, I see you in the shadows, I see you in my ...

    3 min read
  • Lirn

    Part one of a fantasy story that still need a real name. any suggestions. i know everything that happens in this story, there's just the matter of sorting it out. ...

    21 min read
  • Counting Days

    Counting Days She’s walking away Down the street, No cars go by, How early is the morning? There are doves behind her, Disguised in grey, When she turns to look ...

    3 min read
  • Desire This (+13)

    Lady comes like a shaking skin Call me back to the green place Night is were I'm headed. Wire and shattered glass Construct Golem Mud man Skin covered in words ...

    1 min read
  • Infinite Moment

    Infinite Moment In this second just after nothingness and right before existence is the entire universe. Stars that disintegrate and become suns and life and spinning rocks surrounded by gaseous ...

    8 min read
  • In Being Left Standing

    In Being Left Standing I. Just an Invitation… Her eyes were huge. Wide, silver, the colour of the sky above a rainy sea. It was pouring with abandon that seems ...

    18 min read
  • Mrs. Crow and the Dealer Man

    Mrs. Crow and the Dealer Man Look at this night that all the black seeps out of. Wind across the grass is a sigh but not a wail, That rattles ...

    4 min read
  • One Morning, After Some Time

    One Morning, After Some Time Morning broke in softly through the curtained window there, But you aren’t stirring in the gentle yellow light. Your eyes are open, they opened long ...

    3 min read
  • Three Small Thoughts

    Finished Book This word and that name and that spell and that certain way of light conjures portals back to those early days, or later ones, where we met and ...

    2 min read
  • As the Moment Passes

    All spells should be cast On the voices of women. This begins in that moment After the universe should have narrowed to a single shaft of light, Focused completely on ...

    2 min read
  • Something Like Poetry and Nonsense, 14 for implication only

    Song of the Woman He says, you start time, love. Follow the beat, dark butterfly, Languid tongue, Shake, say chant, ache, Gathering mist incubates delicate storm. I said to him, ...

    5 min read
  • four things that never happened to Grace Hampton

    Four Things That Never Happened to Grace Hampton 1. Fairy Tale Pale bright autumn sunlight falls lightly from the window. Her niece in the rosebud pink dress is leaning out ...

    16 min read
  • Companions in Rain

    Companions in Rain He thinks, ‘So this too, side by side,’ Or at least at-a-breast or against, Not a death ...

    3 min read
  • One Night in the Life of... part 1 of 2

    One Night in the Life of … “We’re going out to the School after dark, again, so no, I can’t ...

    13 min read
  • Return to the Top of the Wheel

    Grey light filtered through the clouds that deadened the sky. As she looked out one of the many windows of ...

    23 min read
  • Black Sleeves Lady Night

    Lady Night Black sleeves lady night, With her impenetrable smirk, And her endless midnight eyes. Strange dancer, you tilting thing, ...

    1 min read
  • I Never Knew the History She Remembered

    I Never Knew the History She Remembered “From what God’s grace have you fallen into this dark night?” I asked ...

    12 min read
  • In the Shade of Knowledge

    In the Shade of Knowledge The thing about shadows is – That light can only make them stronger, Yeah, the ...

    4 min read
  • Toss Me

    Toss Me Change sang smoothly, Change, the open door, Fast and peaceful slings the night through life, Oh, how you ...

    2 min read
  • We Are Not Trees

    The enemy is always winning The enemy is time. Together with love and passion Is always blood Has always been ...

    2 min read
  • To unbind and see

    *story removed for overhaul*

    1 min read
  • To See- parts1&2-urban fantasy/magic realism w/rain

    To Unbind and See “Tobitha, would you mind staying after class for a moment?” said Mr. Winslow quietly as she ...

    28 min read
  • A Place Outside Time

    Watching sunlight through glasses of water In a still room that smells of basil And sand I can feel you thinking from over here Such heavy thoughts I look out ...

    1 min read
  • Present Tense

    Present Tense-WIP Fandom: none/original Author's Notes: Has only been bata briefly read, and it's not even a first full chapter. x-posted at my. Summery: "...This is not where you want ...

    12 min read
  • Soon the Departure to Avalon

    Soon the Departure to Avalon This, the very substance of this, Of the magnitude of what they will tear apart And pull down Or draw together For the sake of ...

    3 min read
  • Present Tense

    ~please pay attention to the timestamps~ I. Present- Ghasakis III, Traveel City, Hyatt2 Hotel - 06:44 local time Dawn suffused the sky – slowly, creepingly – until all at once ...

    17 min read
  • changeling child

    It was the middle of the night and there was a creature at the attic window. A strange creature such as I’d never knew existed. It was only the beginning. ...

    9 min read
  • You Won't Surprised (to Find Me Gone)

    ** You won’t be surprised To find me gone. So well you know that part of me that, Won’t sit still. I’ll leave you in the morning When the light ...

    2 min read
  • Weather Another Winter Season

    Can you see How the days have all just changed Like a kindly face you used to know That has turned away. Call to me Call in the children from ...

    2 min read
  • Small Life, Empty Space

    Small Life, Empty Space * She walked out onto the street And saw that all was ash And no photographs were made. All the lights were sleeping And flowers bled ...

    1 min read
  • Do Not Confess (Useless Love)

    Writen just a day after finishing the novel, 'Possession' by AS Byatt and heavily influenced by the poetry and letters therein. Not my usual style, I'm uncertain if i even ...

    3 min read
  • Walking the Slow Path (dream tide)

    Walking the Slow Path (dream tide) we who take the slow path where each step is weathered and each breath is the weighed we that must experience each mile we ...

    2 min read
  • In Fond Regret

    Memorize a box of pictures Polaroids, ill exposed Dated haircuts and specks of sunlight Captured in tender observation. Remember there, in the line of a cheek, The bend of a ...

    3 min read
  • Miss-placed Affection

    * I had a dream, I held your hand in it, Curled to your side, Such a feeling of desperate tenderness Binding down my ribs. I shifted my had against ...

    3 min read
  • And Then, Our Endeavour

    A few months ago I wrote a poem called 'miss-placed affection''on a subject of great interest to me, but the poem itself was so unsatisfying that I started again from ...

    3 min read
  • the End of All Things [pt1 chp1]

    This is only the first section of the first chapter -- I favour longer chapters -- but there was a natural pause after this point and a longer post seemed ...

    9 min read
  • Beauty, as it Begins

    Oh, lament, for we are haplessAnd made to repeat.You have a waxwork daughter,Come and make her sit before the fireWatch if it will make her grow dewyOr bendAnd settle back ...

    1 min read


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— Mark Twain