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Delirium there is sand in my mouth
grit, thick swollen grains
and her iron heel upon my throat.
hot caresses - I shiver
and toss, tangled sheets soaked in sweat.
her breath burns and abrades
as I fall through the fabric of dream
psychedelic, oh yes she is codeine
and bodily fluids on boil.
my avatar scrabbles and digs
digs
digs
bloody fingernails, sand between lips
but the damp earth recedes, ever deeper
she laughs as I pant,

SailorPerhaps when I die I will fall
From the whipping mast
Right into the jagged maw
Of our old shadow, shark
His ancient jaw
Will crush my aching bones
And inside my last view is crimson

Perhaps when I die I will sink
Through the rotten boards
Down to the sodden bed
Of our devoted wet-nurse, sea
Water like lead
Will push me hold me down
Till all is black and then is not at all

Perhaps when I die I will float
From the fragile deck
Skim upon the nauseous waves
Beneath the solid sky
The sun engraves
His name upon my weary flesh
And I will close my eyes beneath the white horizon

Blood TideThe blood tide washes red upon the shore
And every fisherwoman stays her nets.
One man of war will not return from war.

The sea knocks on the cliffs as though a door
They gather on the beach with bated breaths.
The blood tide washes red upon the shore.

The merwomen perform their ghostly score
Undying ocean messengers of death.
One man of war will not return from war.

Await the name of he who breathes no more
Blown by the wind till here it comes to rest
The blood tide washes red upon the shore.

One wife falls down upon the sandy floor
The rest breathe out – their song is not sung yet
One man of war will not return from war.

My LadyMy lady’s ever clothed and cloaked in dark
Suffused into the shadows in the woods
Where men take silver swords and watch for death.
The things they fear won’t look her in the eye
She lives beneath the banner of the night
But does not bow to it, nor anyone.

My lady speaks to nobody save one
Who meets her in the courtyard after dark
And asks to be delivered to the night
And understand what lurks within the woods.
She’ll teach a willing student, eye to eye
But only those survive who fear not death.

My lady’s on familiar terms with death.
She brings her pupils to it one by one
And those who dare to look it in the

Labyrinth SoupIntriguing – teeth and tongue
and strains of sinew in the throat
and echoes of vibrations in the shell
create some kind of meaning: make a note.
That wasn’t what I meant to say at all.

Speak not lest ye be spoken to-
No, no, epigrammatic/to the point/concise
Perhaps – oh, pithy. So I thought
in wavelengths, no, no, no, precise!
We fool ourselves to think this can be taught.

The pages dust your cheekbones gently as you
close your eyes. I trip downstairs and they are made
of letters. Then it’s night. We stalk the wild thesauri for
their bony terminology and typeset hides. They fade
into the trees and let loose

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Rip Van Winkleby ~MaggieBloome

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The boy is from laurent_stock, the background is from my dad's trip to Nepal.

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~anatoly Mar 10, 2008

you know... this is actually put together very well magz, initially before i had a REAL close look, it seriously looked like a boy in the hills - very deceiving, i like it

who's this guy anyway?

~anatoly Mar 10, 2008

don't take it the wrong way soz, close up it still looks very real - i just had my eyes 2 cm away from the screen assessing it pixel by pixel

~MaggieBloome Mar 11, 2008

lol thanks! It's from a stock photo by this guy who's since taken down his stuff... laurent someone, it's a pity - I have a few of his pics saved and they're great. He had this awesome hat...

~mother6rusia9domina Aug 16, 2007

juj...love it...beautiful work...

!ahlam-photography Mar 25, 2007

What an awesome photomanip... I love it. Very smart idea.

~MaggieBloome Mar 27, 2007

Thank you! I just wanted to do something with the pics my dad brought back from Nepal, and I happened to have top hat dude sitting in my stock folder (just because he was pretty, really) and I noticed that the pose kind of worked, so I went with it. The shadows aren't aligned, but you know, whatever XD

~MidStaryNight Aug 5, 2006

I love Laurent.

This is cool, great job!

~Olivia~

~MaggieBloome Aug 6, 2006

Do you have any idea what happened to him? It looks like all the stock got deleted, I am very confused.

~MidStaryNight Aug 8, 2006

Yeah, he deleted all his stock because he got sick of art theives. ...I believe that was him.... it should say in one of his last couple of journals. Other than that, though, I don't know what's happened to him. He must have gotten really busy.

~MaggieBloome Aug 10, 2006

Oh, thanks for telling me. It's a pity, that top hat is a noble beast that ought to be free to roam the wilderness.

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