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con espressione

by `cality, Aug 4, 2010, 8:39:41 AM
Literature / Prose / Fiction / Romance / Post-Teen (Mature) / Flash Fiction & Vignettes

con espressione.

I.
You were the only one who could play my ribcage like a pianist in concert. Your fingers found their home in the spaces between my ribs [fifth, sixth, seventh], and nestled against the soft curve of my violin-waist.

IV.
We should take it adagio, you said as we got lost in a tangle of freckled limbs that had seen too much August sunlight. OK, I breathed back, but of course we ignored that once the stars exploded above our heads.

V.
Two quavers of a crotchet (it was never two halves of a whole), we descended into bass clef and danced the line that was the F below middle C. Your fingers were mezzo piano on my skin as you led me towards that imperfect cadence.

We were more beautiful together than apart.

P o e t r y

SwevenBudding teeth click
shut; waken with me,
a vision of stars
upon your teeth,
& thread your
dreams along the
backbones of children.
Be still, sleep-
er, for the pregnant moon
still
swells
(in wonder.)Sweven by `cality

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Dance backwards, darlingA confession:
ma, there are seahorses dancing in the library.
Autumn has come to my hometown.
Today; cool, clear and sunny--
April, a stuttering fool.
3am, and kings slumber;
Sunday falls heavy,
eyes wet with gasoline.Dance backwards, darling by `cality

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SubductionWe drip into October
with the silence of spiders
heavy in our chests,

our hearts curling in
on themselves like
leaves in autumn.

Lungs unfurl into the
stillness;
there is a breath, a whisper--

This dying wind whistles
through empty throats,
as if to murmur a warning,
perhaps, that we threaten
to become
earthquakes
along our hipbones.Subduction by `cality

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Splits lips upon starsMorning
splits
open, like orange-flesh
cradled
in a palm.

I tuck consonants between my
lips/
draw moon-craters in my eyes; I make wishes
upon stars
that are too far away to realise and hope
that somehow things will
change. Yet

the sun is still a mere hole
in the
sky.Splits lips upon stars by `cality

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GravityI'm waiting for you on grey-slate rooftops
with the August sun between my teeth,
resisting the impulse to
bite down

(upon skin). Icarus

lies at my feet, bent
around broken feathers
and a skeleton, as I pick
apart our earth-
quakes with my fingertips.

Always,
marrow eyes and hollow
bones
-whisper-

it's not that far to fall.Gravity by `cality

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What beauty isn'tto be
[skinny]
rather than

( f a t )

yet somehow also

} c u r v y {

instead
of

|thin|What beauty isn't by `cality

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Splits lips upon stars

by `cality, Jun 12, 2011, 9:30:32 AM
Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

Morning
                  splits
open, like orange-flesh
cradled
in a palm.

I tuck consonants between my
          lips/
draw moon-craters in my eyes; I make wishes
                          upon stars
that are too far away to realise and hope
that somehow things will
change. Yet

the sun is still a mere hole
                in the
                                    sky.

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SurrealismThree a.m., and
God is in my bathtub

again—
sipping whiskey

hallelujahs;
backlit by

a freshwater moon
in the mother-of-pearl sky. Surrealism by *Concora

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little yellow lover little
yellow lover
my m oo n
i love you
Her
like flowers
of may
purling azalea
blooms
&
the Him
who wants
nothing more nothing less(than
skin
so soft
and the
breasts so fat
with blue sea)
sinking in
between
curves limbs & all
asleep
(& i like this my body
on yours
gentle lungs heavy breaths
sleeping
little yellow lover by *littlemoonboots

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