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October 16, 2010
Winter is just a few months away; have you had your car checked recently?
The Cruelest Season by ~batousaijin
The Cruelest Season by ~batousaijin
Featured by GaioumonBatou
Literature
Thaw
spring thaw -
chickadees splashing
in my bootprints
Literature
My Winter
Cardinals will
drip
from the branches like
berries
and the sky will turn to smoke.
The ground crunches under your feet and it’s
Almost as if you could
sail away
across the ice.
Brandished behind screens of glass
are fists of ivory
They are covered in scratches and
bloom
from the dark like magnolia blossoms.
Literature
I Used To Be A Fox
To be a fox again, slender was my frame for once in my adult years,
the fat of my gluttony shed for a moment, like the athletic child I'd been.
Still, so hungry I bit and bat at the terrified rabbits, snapping a neck,
and so I began to eat a dear old friend of mine, none the wiser, poor Julia.
On the eve of our downfall, the cities stopped their incessant buzzing,
Rockets froze in the air, vapour and fire became a beautiful thing.
Some tired, bored creator, caught in a moment of whimsy,
Shifted our souls from one thing to the next, a wonderful game it must have been.
As a grasshopper, I perched on a tear in a paper door, playing my n
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Nice work.
Certainly agree with the TS Elliot comparison -
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers
Certainly agree with the TS Elliot comparison -
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers