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These are seeds spat into a red earth. Words to arrange themselves in neat stacks, that flit and bloom in birth, wrapping roots in snappy syntax. Wit sharp as scythes run across a whetstone tongue, reaping a gray brain, thoughts like little prayers to providence, caught in wine-red welts on pink skin: sin that sinks in. I am stoic and undressed, silly, sultry, statuesque. Speaking words, like “happiness” or “elephant” or “shoe.” |
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prayer, patterns; poetry on December 12, 2010
RE: prayer, patterns; poetry
newpyramids remarked on December 12, 2010
sfdetrioter, you got everything I was going for with this. The understanding alone always means so much - thanks a lot!
newpyramids remarked on December 12, 2010
sfdetrioter, you got everything I was going for with this. The understanding alone always means so much - thanks a lot!
RE: prayer, patterns; poetry
sfdetroiter remarked on November 09, 2010
(Duh... I'm re-reading this now and see the Plath reference too! Missed it last time.)
I really like this.
sfdetroiter remarked on November 09, 2010
(Duh... I'm re-reading this now and see the Plath reference too! Missed it last time.)
I really like this.
Jessica Standifird
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prayer, patterns; poetry on October 01, 2010
RE: prayer, patterns; poetry
sfdetroiter remarked on October 01, 2010
This reminds me of something Anne Sexton said. She was really fond of the palindrome, "rats live on no evil star" - not sure why exactly, but I'm guessing it had to do with the power words have to take on a life of their own - e.g., with a palindrome, once you have one half in place, the other writes itself. This may not be an exact quote, but Sexton once said something like, "All I am is the trick of words writing themselves."
sfdetroiter remarked on October 01, 2010
This reminds me of something Anne Sexton said. She was really fond of the palindrome, "rats live on no evil star" - not sure why exactly, but I'm guessing it had to do with the power words have to take on a life of their own - e.g., with a palindrome, once you have one half in place, the other writes itself. This may not be an exact quote, but Sexton once said something like, "All I am is the trick of words writing themselves."
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