1/30 The pavement beneath me is still damp from when the storm broke, but the sun dried every other surface around me. Long after it retired, I rose to find my reclining figure silhoutted, shadowy wet, and surrounded by the unfurled white flags of dogwood petals, but I have no truce to make with the world
until, in quiet surprise, I find a sparrow nested on the ledge of my porch; He fled the storm and fell asleep so near to me
with the wonder of his soft breaths ruffling up so clearly, and life moving rustling just beneath my surface and before my eyes, then flying right to my front door, I promise to never go searching for love again
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Your head is a living forest full of song birds ~E. E. Cummings
I have paced from door to door of this house so many times that you would think I wouldn't get so lost at night but it is hard when the house is already split into two and somehow I missed the memo so I stand shunned, wandering in no-man's land
no matter how many times I dined on left-overs straight out of the styrofoam box and still cold from the fridge while seated on the kitchen floor with no lights on, this neglect is never something I will grow used to
I think, perhaps it's all this hair that I have too much of it covers me, they can't see they think that I am a stranger
with scissors, leaning into my reflection, I still can't quite bring myself to come back into their sights; my father once told me he didn't want it cut because he liked the way it looked, just before telling me it'll be easier for you to find your way in this world if I always keep your eyes covered
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Your head is a living forest full of song birds ~E. E. Cummings
last night i had this dream of these rooms all filled with nothing but beds upon beds and some strange instrumental music playing in my head that made me want to sleep in every one
i think it says a lot about me, how all i want to do lately is sleep--that, and drink coffee, which shouldn't go hand in hand; --so i drink coffee in my sleep and and sleep while i drink coffee
eventually, i ran out of beds and then the room filled with all these strangers rushing to get some sleep the silence of their empty breaths drowned out the music and i woke, poured myself a coffee, dreamed right into the cup
Your head is a living forest full of song birds ~E. E. Cummings
Rhia <3 Your imagery is spectacular. Day One has a quiet feel about it—quiet but oh-so-strong, and is wonderfully fluid! Day Two jabs me a little, but I like how you've woven the story so well into all the homey imagery; and Day Three is by far my favourite!
poured myself a coffee, dreamed right into the cup
Softball Game hollowed beneath the bus stop, a lone woman with an old face stares off to a sign with a backwards ampersand|dnasrepma and[dna] purses red lips at three
innings of stolen bases and [dna] the tinny noise of batting battering her
Your head is a living forest full of song birds ~E. E. Cummings
6/30 Morpogeny The first time you came to my house, the whole side yard was a mess of clay, grass torn away, trench scars and roots, corpse-like arms of the two torn down trees, and a small army of bull dozers.
now, the sod has caught root and is full and a bit too green and you are supposed to be here soon but was I there for you? No,
I catch a small chill even though it is too hot with no breeze and i touch my hands to my arms, softer than you would.
Your head is a living forest full of song birds ~E. E. Cummings
we were at my neighborhood park, walking first by the baseball field which is littered with Yu-Gi-Oh cards and Michelob Light cans; we snicker and marvel at what a party that must've been as we kick the cards up into a flutter
and then we got to my tree. the oak that has the branches meant for sitting and talking, the leaves thick enough to shield us from the world and still filter golden dancers down upon us and the lake
the lake-which five Canadian Geese all crowd down into all at once in a cacophony of feathers. you tell me that geese are your favorite because once they attacked your uncle, bit him
and then you're quiet again
and I try my best to focus my attention on softly crushing all the mosquitoes who dare to land on the soft and pale skin at the inside of your arms. Tomorrow, they'll welt up anyways but it's the thought of trying.
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Your head is a living forest full of song birds ~E. E. Cummings
ballet dancers have...movement,....and feet so much softer and more cautious and measured....than hip-hop dancers
so you two were..an interesting pair. Her skin fair..and yours.....dark. You always stomping....heels..roughly and rhythmically onto the world (your stage)......but she...(the one...in dainty slippers) was the one to stomp all over...your heart, wasn't she?
.......you didn't expect it, but...you promised not..to be hardened ..as you danced the hurt into the ground, .......ground your heels until you caught..traction again.
your chest popped,...feet slid, ..muscles jerked along to the beat of ....I just don't love you any more, you know?....no, you didn't know ...and all i know is that i have never felt so much of someone else's
tiredness...soreness...as when you danced on the stage before me .....but off stage, i made you promise that your next dance would be to the tune of I am moving...on
Your head is a living forest full of song birds ~E. E. Cummings
she tried to tell him how her heart looked just like a hummingbird when he touched her and he tried to smile but was a bit hesitant at the corners of his lips
and so she tried to fix this.......well, not that much like a hummingbird
but it was a bit too late; he rubbed a bit of her glitzy rose eyeshadow from the corner of her eye, blinked slowly as he stared at it, brushed it off onto his jeans. When he took a step back, she wanted to tell him how her heart was really nothing more but crushed velvet in powdery jewel- tones. It's just that her lips couldn't quite take shape.
Your head is a living forest full of song birds ~E. E. Cummings
my mother told me, with an honest but quiet sort of appreciation, I suppose I'm sort of glad that your biggest act of teenage rebellion was picking a pink prom dress.
I swirled slowly, tweaked a bit of skirt against her.
It's more orchid than anything, mother. Anyways. I've still got time.
Your head is a living forest full of song birds ~E. E. Cummings
Chili oil hits the pan and rises; an unexpected assault, the first step towards chemical warfare, it settles inside nostrils to burns, waits heavily on the backs of tongues. Garlic, minced and cooked in butter, is different. Heavier, but warmer and softer.
I watched anemic almost-strawberries slowly blush, liven on the vine. Another day or two and they will rot to leave me only with the leaves. I would probably like to take them and lavendar to brew into some pale and melancholy tea to ward off almost-summer loneliness. My mother says first I must hang them in somewhere cold, and dry: your heart should do nicely, smickers, but no matter how hollow I may be, I am stilltoonarrow to fit anything more.
Your head is a living forest full of song birds ~E. E. Cummings
i. learn to find solace in the raucous crunching of romaine's heart, crumbling exteriors of bread (crusts not harder than my own)
ii. watch the gazes always and know how to tell the moment before they fall on you so you may close up
iii. they tell you so many times that all this noise is how the show they care, affection carried over grating sound waves and shaking walls. From this, you can be sure that this silence is just as cold as you thought.
iv. soon, you will discover the many ways in which you can hide even behind open doors
Your head is a living forest full of song birds ~E. E. Cummings
We were little girls at recess in the green weaving flowers into crowns and writing out lists of all the obscene names we knew onto small white boards, pink paisley journal pages
Bitch, whore thrown down into the mix and ones eyebrows furrow, head lilts Slightly sideways. I thought those were just other words for 'mother'
Your head is a living forest full of song birds ~E. E. Cummings
I was weeping as much for him as her; we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others. — Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
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