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August 15, 2011
The suggester writes: Whether the Land Cups Water... by ~Blzzard has a firm structure entwined with fluid, thoughtful images that make it a wondrous piece.
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swimming, not drowning.
when you're waist-deep in a love you know you shouldn't have even dipped your toes into, you spend a lot of time cursing the current. you try to stamp your feet but find the sand's up to your ankles and seaweed is tied in bows around your calves. the waves begin to climb, breaking on your collarbones and splashing your face. breath seems to take up more space in your chest. you bring air into your body in the shortest bursts possible and it spills back out like machine gun fire.
sometimes, though-- mostly in the first hours after sunrise, when you're alone with the space she inhabited on your couch and her perfume on the back of your knees--
Literature
Suspended
Suspended
I like the palms of your hands-
dry and static. I like the palms
your mother planted in the front yard
when you were five. They grew more
quickly, but you grew healthier- less green.
Good thing we planned this
exodus into the Dead Sea.
Lucky we cannot help but to float.
Something from the sea, the land-
they were mockingbirds, weren’t they?
This cannot be healthy.
How the hell did my mother manage
to sink here like a fish
after death? She claims to have exhaled
hard, but my lungs will not compress
enough; I cannot let go
enough. Let me tell you something-
We should grow gills,
individually,
Literature
Progesterone.
you should ask,
fittingly,
if one could die from bruises
or pressure, sub-
marine and ready to tip
like
an ancient bell-curve.
naseous, I am full
of textbooks, upper-layers of
disgust and
seizures.
but you'll come down south
with me, after our bones
ache and stretch and I
told them, I did, that
all I needed was comfort,
yours --
at night, and I don't
care about doors.
please, please let your
optimism be
true.
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The structure of this piece denotes the way our minds juggle multi layers of thought & memory, one element (e.g. a past incident) acting as a bleed-through in the present. This process becomes really amplified in folks who've experienced any kind of trauma, tho' history informs the extant for all of us.
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