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  • Danielle read this
    Sometimes I wonder if the pills that I devour have individual lives. Like, livestock. Pillstock fresh from the farms of their pharmacy, tak
    by Vernal 22 lines, on Oct 14 9:41 PM
  • Fragility
    I have tried to keep all of my words inside of a smooth, pink binded book
    To keep them from being swallowed up, gulped by the passersby like coca cola, or wine.
    by Vernal 24 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 12 3:57 PM
  • Just about a few dreams
    I had a dream last week that tornadoes came to take you, ten of them, angry and overdue. They came one at a time, each stronger than the last, and as much as I pulled you toward the ground it was you who had the strength to s
    by Vernal 11 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 8 1:19 PM
  • You disgust me
    I have to get out of here or it’s going to eat me alive. The idea that I actually touched him, that I enjoyed the way he touched me, that I held him, watched him cry and told him that I would love him no matter what he did. T
    by Vernal 15 lines, on Aug 5 2:45 PM. In Abuse, Personal, Sad
  • Houses
    by Vernal 20 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 27 10:12 PM
  • For my father.
    Oh, here’s the door. Here are the million rusted latches, and the handles, and the drawers, and the windows, and the knobs, and the wood th
    by Vernal 9 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 15 12:26 PM
  • Firefly
    We are the remembered people.
    Moments plucked from the creases of time,
    by Vernal 35 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 5 11:35 AM
  • The Children of Oleander
    In the morning he found me, grasping at the earth for answers, losing hair like petals, wasted to the ground. As he neared, pondering the u
    by Vernal 4 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 5 11:26 AM
  • Rupture
    I'm sorry, this is not my usual. It had to be here. I'm sorry.
    by Vernal 17 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 20 10:46 PM 2008
  • Memoir of a dream
    From the perspective of freedom of thought.
    by Vernal 37 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 29 10:16 PM 2008
  • Chalk fingers
    by Vernal 45 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 27 3:14 AM 2008
  • Idiot treasure isn't for wanton eyes
    Why must everything we do boil down to sanity? In and out. I'm in my head, I'm out of my head, I'm convulsing in tears on the ground, I'm laughing with my friends... with the people I love. That's ALL I want. So why is it tha
    by Vernal 5 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 6 8:41 PM 2008
  • Aries palm
    Bone dust gathers,
    Scatters there between my teeth
    by Vernal 45 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 28 8:03 PM 2008
  • Loss of sight
    Deprivation. Sleep cornered and
    by Vernal 21 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 25 8:29 PM 2008
  • lèvres
    There were two of us then,
    Two lips touching, moon thick and desperate
    by Vernal 28 lines, on Jan 23 11:03 PM 2008
  • Lout
    Shear solitude,
    Sun-dried worms intertwined
    by Vernal 15 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 20 6:15 PM 2008
  • Splinter
    Jagged accusations,
    Crooked fingers
    by Vernal 9 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 13 10:55 PM 2008
  • Crystalline obsidian
    Drunken night sits cold
    Upon paling lips that spit
    by Vernal 14 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 20 10:40 PM 2007
  • Aurora asked me my name
    Mother sky opened her
    Mouth for me, slight,
    by Vernal 13 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 1 4:33 PM 2007
  • 4:36 Pm
    by Vernal 39 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 1 1:03 PM 2007
  • The men that live under my eyes
    And it feels as if, on occasion there are tiny men in the employ of my brain, scratching and slithering their ways up under my eyelids like
    by Vernal 10 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 31 5:12 PM 2007
  • Veils
    Our sanguine tryst / Met at the corner of / Her eyes and the world. / Soft and saturated... / She would paint me onto thin, / tan /
    by Vernal 39 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 6 2:28 AM 2007
  • Planetary changes turn astrology to wrinkles.
    by Vernal 9 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 4 12:36 AM 2007
  • Lava baby sings sun encrusted shine
    Maybe it's got nothing to do with me.
    by Vernal 8 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 3 11:37 PM 2007
  • Uterian drawstring
    Fingers fondle / placental roots, / Tracing tantric distance to womb / And wound / Stumble. / Bleed. / Subtle hint to / Your intentions. / Facing sun rise / Thoughts like / Western
    by Vernal 34 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 29 10:44 PM 2007
  • Sleeping flower
    I count web-toed as two words by the way.
    by Vernal 11 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 29 1:58 AM 2007
  • Rabbit head
    Wow... prompt: fuzzy bunnies
    by Vernal 8 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 27 3:45 AM 2007
  • Tan Ocean
    by Vernal 4 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 26 3:10 AM 2007
  • When woman writes
    by Vernal 6 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 26 2:28 AM 2007
  • It runs through the rivers in my palms
    Prompt: Trepidation
    by Vernal 3 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 26 1:43 AM 2007
  • Incandecadence
    by Vernal 20 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 25 5:08 PM 2007
  • Gardener
    Spark toothed / indention with a smile / sings saccharine to the sun, / as she works fingers into / soul drenched finery, / chocolate soil
    by Vernal 24 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 22 4:47 PM 2007. In Life, Love, Nature, Other, Personal, Thoughts
  • I hope to make tiny incisions in his lungs and really FEEL what breathing is like
    Every time I think of him, I want to perform surgery... illegal surgery that involves making tiny incisions in too tight skin and slipping
    by Vernal 0 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 22 3:20 PM 2007
  • Propoganda spinners
    Satirical: Synonyms 1. sardonic, ironical, taunting, cutting, mordant, biting, acid
    by Vernal 1 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 22 3:07 PM 2007
  • Billy boy
    by Vernal 2 lines, 12 comments, on Jun 22 2:29 PM 2007
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