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The things I must rememberon a small, glass table by my front door I stack neatlyThe things I must remember
my jacket my keys the face
I stole
from my father.
I forgot my jacket, once.
When I opened the door
like a coffin lid
she squatted, crumpled, a puppy left behind by her legs.
by ~Sprawwl
PrometheusI. Birth in CadencePrometheus
1. The unending scraping –
Shavings helix down to hardwood, glean sawdust between furrows that make questions of
eyes. Splinters of mistletoe pierce calluses, puddle between his fingers.
2. White skeletons in gloom –
Iapetus’
scrimshawed hands trace the grain, worrying at blackened knots. The shadows cast by an unformed jawbone are blazed on bark, a pathway cut in cedar.
3. Striking tombs with his heel –
The blade obeys. T
by ~Sprawwl
BreakingShe cantilevers her wings like doors, ' feathers clicking locks into her back.Breaking
The bit strangles the words that leap
(a thousand red ants) from her mouth and march across the things they unmake that crawl, tremble, still.
He bridles smiles, sucks cold
air across his teeth. What questions whip
his forehead slack, his cheeks tight? What scorpions sting his eyes in this wind?
With one spurred heel, he carves a red staff and a fugue into her white parchment, pulls lullabies from her arched spine.
by ~Sprawwl
The Birth of PegasusI. WaterThe Birth of Pegasus
is life, he said, but still the plankton glistened slickly in the halos' glare - neoned oilslicks, fishscales scraped
across her skin, and heartbeats skipped like hopscotch. Tides smoothed pebbles' edges, vertices collapsing into
spheres. She fell. Surf
foamed white, then pink, then red,
flaying paleness into a colored stone in woman's form, half-sunk between salted grass and sea. The unglassed silica froze and melted in the waves.
II. Son
He mumbles prayers and syllable
by ~Sprawwl
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- Current Residence: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Interests: Writing, reading, music, school. Lots of school.
- Favourite band or musician: Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov
- Favourite artist: Picasso, Rembrandt - cliche, I know, but true.
- Favourite poet or writer: Eliot, Ginsberg, Dickinson, Plath
- Email: sprawwling@hotmail.com
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