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if you wanted me to,
I could be your muse:
I could
paint your prose purple, prick
your metaphor ‘til it sang,
lure your ideas
into lurid, tragic urgency
and watch them take flight.
I could inspire
with the best of them,
spill words like oil
into your open mouth, empty
head: I could
make my poetry
yours.
interested?
I could be your muse:
I could
paint your prose purple, prick
your metaphor ‘til it sang,
lure your ideas
into lurid, tragic urgency
and watch them take flight.
I could inspire
with the best of them,
spill words like oil
into your open mouth, empty
head: I could
make my poetry
yours.
interested?
Literature
stonemaze
sometimes, I pretend
our home is tinnitus
I scrape pine needles
into a horizontal bowl.
twisted scenery
settling in like snow
inside my finger
bones, stirring
up sparks. he
may be the last
explosive, a
fire fight that bites
through my palms;
may be the last
crackling
monolith to collect
spacedust on
his loneliness.
I should be left alon
Literature
Asphodel
A beckoning:
watercolour sky shrinking,
too late, teeth fall; pearls
from a broken string.
Blink and the moon ignites—
but the sheets are still
envelope-stiff.
Literature
Confluence
According to the old religion, a scribe
must bathe in natural running water
before she draws what is dictated to her,
because writing's just like cleaning a mirror,
she says, it's like rearranging stains
left on wholesome rivers. For three nights,
I drew geometric shapes in the margins;
I had been instructed to take notes on
the underside of snow, and how it colonized
the lithosphere, musically and without hurt.
It felt like a call, but it wasn't a calling.
The paper was made in Himalayan foothills
by a woman who had cleansed knots from fibrous bark
and dipped her bleached hands into boiling water.
I mangled the page into a cottage, then
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I really like the flow you used; it brings it together nicely. One of the first things I noticed which was already said was at the end you simply put 'interested'. Maybe if you just added 'you interested?'
The second stanza was my favorite; I feel like it has the most imagery I could visualize.
The second stanza does as well; but I feel like 'I could inspire with the best of them,' could be worked upon. Something about 'the best of them' takes away a uniqueness of some sort.
Other than that it's quite lovely. I like the shortness of it but when you think about it a lot more can be thought about than just the words you wrote
lovely writing!
The second stanza was my favorite; I feel like it has the most imagery I could visualize.
The second stanza does as well; but I feel like 'I could inspire with the best of them,' could be worked upon. Something about 'the best of them' takes away a uniqueness of some sort.
Other than that it's quite lovely. I like the shortness of it but when you think about it a lot more can be thought about than just the words you wrote
lovely writing!