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Postby crustine » 1/26/2006, 7:28 am

broaden your horizons. I am sure your prof will have some connections but go beyond her/him and just get it out there. I love the line wrote with her right the most left-handed girl. it is brilliant.
<center>~Hope Matters~</center>
<center>Her beauty was disarming, but she had no other resources for dealing with the world.
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Postby happening fish » 1/30/2006, 1:35 pm

in progress:

elegy

I.
when summer lay smoldering in beds of grass
and the earth burned our naked feet

days swallowed each other,
the spur of action saved always for
..........later

(this was the lie, in the yard
sweating green into the heavy air

deepfry tan sun
glinting red off your retinas

pressure-cooked skin on
muskoka wood)


II.
the snails we collected by the dusty curb
the flies that hit our burnt faces
the cat that laced its way through fences

long dead (frozen into dirt) (eyes iced shut)
lying with the rest of the past

what little grace remains
in the languid movement
of limp leaves and hot birds
now tempered with loss
awkward is the new cool
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Postby happening fish » 2/8/2006, 6:38 pm

and then,
in briefest moment

(your skin occurs to me)

instant closer coming until smell
honey prickle brush soft skim
light sweat white sun seizes
under muscle thin skin
fair honey lustre
into cobalt
clouded
eye

I
back-taken
breath in draw
faint closeness faded.
awkward is the new cool
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Postby Hope » 2/8/2006, 8:10 pm

:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:
turn your head
come back again
to here knows when

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Postby happening fish » 2/27/2006, 1:03 pm

my very liberal take on the pantoum.


Four Hour Delay

i’m stuck on a train
that removes and returns me
but leaves me no closer
nor further away
just moves me and turns me
and when it ejects me
i’ll be stuck in the rain
waiting for you to get me
and when you reject me
it will be no surprise
cause you never did get me
just strangely amused me
so i won’t be surprised
if you leave me no closer
than this unamused stranger
who’s stuck on a train
that removes and returns him
but leaves him no closer
nor further away
just moves him and turns him
and when it ejects him
he’ll be stuck in the rain
waiting for me to get him
and when i reject him
it will be no surprise
cause i never did get him
just strangely amused him
so he won’t be surprised
if i leave him no closer
than this unamused stranger
stuck with him on the train
awkward is the new cool
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Postby beautiful liar » 2/27/2006, 4:54 pm

that's awesome alex.
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Postby Kathy » 2/27/2006, 6:21 pm

:GASP: that's great! :love:
<I><B>"I know this sounds corny, and I might be a little bit drunk, but honest to god, thank you everybody"</B></I>
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Postby trentm32 » 2/27/2006, 9:17 pm

i likey.
"When looking up there, I just felt whole, like I belonged. Like one day I too would shine my most brilliant. Sitting there also made me think about sitting through services at my little country church back home. About that never-changing congregation of the same sixty-seven people and everyone has known you since before you were born. Now, out here in the real world, everything just seemed more vivid than when I used to sit in that little pew. That pew that was now so, so far away from where I was. I feared I had somehow left God behind there, too. I feared he was somehow just sitting there, saving my seat on the fifth pew from the front row, just waiting on me to come back. I left so quickly, I worried that he may not have noticed I was gone. And, now, I’m just too far away to find. So he’s just sitting there, patiently waiting on me to come back. I closed my eyes and prayed a moment. I hoped more than anything that he could still hear me." -an excerpt from my novella, A Sea of Fallen Leaves.

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Postby happening fish » 3/1/2006, 12:51 am

fanks!
awkward is the new cool
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Postby happening fish » 3/6/2006, 2:28 pm

bingo

.......two feet
on the sidewalk
.......two feet
from the.................traffic
..............screaming
..............................sounds like
.........shopping channel
smells like ....................luck

take two steps forward
..cry out

.................bingo
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Postby happening fish » 3/15/2006, 7:22 am

she leapt across the little drifts
of snow that sat in concrete cracks
the little drifts in concrete cracks
were melting gratefully

her feet played games around the grass
that hid in wet and muddled clumps
around the grass and muddled clumps
she danced delightedly

oh spring oh spring has let me in
i found myself another love
another love has let me in
and given me away—
awkward is the new cool
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Postby happening fish » 3/21/2006, 7:34 pm

It is a shore
who slumps against the air and breathes
our voices out.

We are the dreadful twins of Narcissus.
The waves, too long for human ears, still sing of us
with Buckley’s grace,
with lofty rhyme of Lycidas.

Let us chain the water to the land,
let us drown our names in sound;
our eternal echoes fade with each rebound.
awkward is the new cool
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Postby happening fish » 3/24/2006, 1:06 am

for fun, an abecedarium:

Announcing births,
condoning deaths—
everyone’s fate gets held in
judgment.

<i>Killing
lets my nauseating,
overwhelming
pain
quietly retreat.</i>

Strangle the unwholesome visitors with xenophobia, you zealots.
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Postby trentm32 » 3/24/2006, 8:54 am

neato.
"When looking up there, I just felt whole, like I belonged. Like one day I too would shine my most brilliant. Sitting there also made me think about sitting through services at my little country church back home. About that never-changing congregation of the same sixty-seven people and everyone has known you since before you were born. Now, out here in the real world, everything just seemed more vivid than when I used to sit in that little pew. That pew that was now so, so far away from where I was. I feared I had somehow left God behind there, too. I feared he was somehow just sitting there, saving my seat on the fifth pew from the front row, just waiting on me to come back. I left so quickly, I worried that he may not have noticed I was gone. And, now, I’m just too far away to find. So he’s just sitting there, patiently waiting on me to come back. I closed my eyes and prayed a moment. I hoped more than anything that he could still hear me." -an excerpt from my novella, A Sea of Fallen Leaves.

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Postby lora » 3/25/2006, 6:36 pm

a pleasure, as always
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Postby happening fish » 3/27/2006, 3:00 pm

the kind of girl who lies in fields
in the brown and brown of early spring

well I mean we are meant to be
alone or whatever, or apart or whatever


the kind of girl who lives like she’s dying
every moment experienced with precision,

alone or whatever, but I never understood
that twenty year silence. what a waste


the kind of girl who lies

of talent. I’d say time but
that’s a waste anyway


incisive and minute,
in fields in the brown

no matter how you slice it

and brown of early spring
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Postby happening fish » 4/10/2006, 5:25 am

Gutterhome

The shortage will be divided among the peasants. –Proverb

I am the glory that drips from bitter mouths
smokes butts from the street
kills strays
rain pounds my flat and painted surface
engenders sporadic stubble
drifts grime
insolent hymns resonate through my waste lands
ciphered with screeching hosannahs
silent cursing
emblazoned with a dead man’s name
I am steaming black sympathy
cold change

behind a lifetime crust of processed cheese
between stains in faded floral print
humming seafoam
worn fur seeps years of sordid stench
exposes overflowing flesh
sprouts scarcity
this runner is cut down foot and knee
bleeds white and octagon red
absorbs lead
and lies motionless in a rotten orange glow
exhaling centuries of gutterhome
into the endless night.
awkward is the new cool
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Postby happening fish » 4/13/2006, 3:40 am

i'm killin' this, you can keep up with it at [url]gutterhome.blogspot.com[/url] if so inclined. thanks for the nice words
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