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constellations and perspiration:
you could have been so much more
than that,
and we both know enough about physics
to remember how this ends,
how you will break, and I will bend;
burn me and take me down,
serenity is not a timepiece,
and this is not a wedding,
no, this is not your brand of
historically inaccurate book burning:
this would hurt a lot less
if you'd just give up
you could have been so much more
than that,
and we both know enough about physics
to remember how this ends,
how you will break, and I will bend;
burn me and take me down,
serenity is not a timepiece,
and this is not a wedding,
no, this is not your brand of
historically inaccurate book burning:
this would hurt a lot less
if you'd just give up
Literature
lightkeeping
As you pick up the lantern in front of you, you find it filled with a busy, buzzing flurry of lights. Somebody stuffed fireflies into this one - not the proper thing at all. You unfasten the latch, open the door; the little bugs stream out gratefully. They bathe the wayside in a faint glow for a moment, then vanish in the pitch-black of the Long Night one by one.
You settle down cross-legged and gently put the empty lantern onto your lap to dream up a star.
Literature
Opalescent
Opalescent
puddles shimmer aside pick-ups
and diesel engines resting
in the lot of a local diner.
The highway rumble fades
to jukebox country and patron
chatter past glass doors
smudged with the syrupy fingerprints
of apple-cheeked children.
There are no leftovers; everyone
leaves full or happy or contemplative,
eyes on the sky or head tilted
down, gazing into oil slick rainbows
and seeing entire worlds.
Literature
Paris s'enflamme
If all our tears flowed into the sky,
could the rain erase these scars?
The heart of Paris is burning
and we stare powerless, dumbstruck,
We collapse like the flamelicked spire
in the middle of the desert
The smoke enters our hearts,
the shriveling roots of our histories.
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I love the full title and the tension that's in there when I read it. Gripping!