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two-oh-six
bones, oh,
i hunt to gather them all:
counting.
counting like you used to.
white coated, white grinned, white walled, white marrowed:
you got to kissin on my riblets,
and then you fell in love with her,
Charalyze,
oh-five on the right side.
you told me she tasted like the wint-o-green,
and since my bite could not reach
you let me try you.
i'd pretend to catch a flake of mint off your back teeth.
we had em all named,
sorta like bitty white babies,
one-six babies, oh,
bone babies, rib babies, our babies.
i love you and you love them mister,
and that's just quite enough.
my favorite were the femurs though,
cos they're so hard to find from the outside, to feel from the outside.
you'd get me to kickin til my socks flew off:
white 'n grey para-chutes blasting to the floor.
they didn't make noise,
or may-be we just didn't notice.
i take em off and throw em myself:
grey 'n white bombs littering the floor.
i can't hear anything over the sound of your,
your neck cracking, your eyes shutting, your skin bluing,
your blood dripping into me,
your blood dripping into me,
your blood dripping into me.
if you loved me you would have let me die
bones, oh,
i hunt to gather them all:
counting.
counting like you used to.
white coated, white grinned, white walled, white marrowed:
you got to kissin on my riblets,
and then you fell in love with her,
Charalyze,
oh-five on the right side.
you told me she tasted like the wint-o-green,
and since my bite could not reach
you let me try you.
i'd pretend to catch a flake of mint off your back teeth.
we had em all named,
sorta like bitty white babies,
one-six babies, oh,
bone babies, rib babies, our babies.
i love you and you love them mister,
and that's just quite enough.
my favorite were the femurs though,
cos they're so hard to find from the outside, to feel from the outside.
you'd get me to kickin til my socks flew off:
white 'n grey para-chutes blasting to the floor.
they didn't make noise,
or may-be we just didn't notice.
i take em off and throw em myself:
grey 'n white bombs littering the floor.
i can't hear anything over the sound of your,
your neck cracking, your eyes shutting, your skin bluing,
your blood dripping into me,
your blood dripping into me,
your blood dripping into me.
if you loved me you would have let me die
Literature
an elegy
the last time I saw you was soaked in summer and
sweat: four-square and hop-scotch abandoned on the
blacktop.
we wearied too quickly of childhood games.
your good-bye was drenched in distraction
and heat,
a long drawn-out lullaby
withering on unsteady wings.
I tried to say it simply, but my poetry got in the way.
I tried to evolve into the dust between your
eyelashes,
so that maybe a part of you would come to be
encased within my ribs.
I never could let go.
your smile faltered into the most beautiful
decay
I have ever known.
I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry
and now that summer has
faded
into an elegiac autumn,
I still cannot
Literature
vendemiaire
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mother's off-white
eyesockets like laundry hung out to
dry. the outside
sky: blunt want and
overdue.
-
loss is goldfish on hot cement
letting go is the first snow of the season
fall reminds me of the funeral and
dirt and
dirt.
she slapped you hard and shrill that
last godless evening but
right now there are acorns under her
flat gold shoes; the draw of her smile is
quick
not at all like fall and its
blown-glass halfness.
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the funeral was a slow nubby
shuttering. white
and white,
and lace. she never
did like
that kind of thing.
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letting go is when she
spins again on those flat gold
shoes. pale and young and
Literature
Camisado
In a double dream, I must spell out the storm:
how the half moon spoke in reams
of folk lore, pipe dreams that tore
the sky in two. How the walls
began to blister and you, sister,
took your place beneath my skin.
We met stargrazing, your eyes electric,
lacing your lies, your intricacies,
like a cat's cradle. And I, stumbling, stuttering
on in a maze of scars. My modern morphia,
sister scarecrow, I'd follow you to the depths
of my chest: to the mumblings and fumblings
of my heart in the dark. To deceit and defeat
and the great empty longings beyond.
For this, this is how
the camisado begins: with broken people
under a broken st
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third stanza
very poignant.
very poignant.