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I have fond memories of this site from when I was a teen, so it will always be YWS to me, but I can understand wanting to appeal to a ...

24 April some days I cannot smile for joy i met joy walking on a wintry evening coming back from the factory she was carrying a basket over one arm ...

23 April 1. love is a thing that grows I want us bittersweet. I want the taste of oranges when we kiss, the boughs of two young trees bent in ...

22 April [continued] 4. dropped stitches This is how you tell the real from the unreal: weaving only works in one and not the other. We must thread and rethread. ...

22 April 1. composition A tone-deaf man at a concert says to his wife I reckon they're taking this too seriously these people look at them sitting in their rows ...

Thanks for the comments guys :) 7 April 07.04 (the other side of the road).doc With apologies to Emily Dickinson.

6 April 06.04 (intertextual).doc What is this, I don't even...

*flails* I adore This thin-skinned offering . Can I take it home and keep it? *pets*

Thanks for the wonderful comments, all. I am having such FUN with NaPo this year. 5 April 1. tuesday morning, 8 a.m. Wager me this – that I have, by ...

Aw, too bad. Still! Sappho! TBH it's been a while so I don't remember the translators I read; because I am lazy I probably just googled XD Sappho's Leap is ...

Everything takes two steps longer when you forget about speed, the break between her thighs and plastic, the turn of her head to the side, the breakdown of language into ...

4 April 1. they say justice is blind The law speaks in whispers. We sit, rows deep, and listen to the rustling of that ancient voice an old man bent ...

Sappho! *flail* Have you read Sappho's Leap , by Erica Jong? It's what got me hooked on her poetry. Are you actually translating some of the original text? Because if ...

I love #3. Particularly that last stanza; it's a wonderfully effective conclusion. :smt023

Not so sure about these lines: how many lions must have lain behind the mirage of your eyes but I absolutely adore: ...how you could smile without showing fangs... [...] ...