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Part of me is hoping you're thinking of me when you're lying in the middle of heaven. It's the part of me that thinks of you in terms of precious lost cities half buried in sand, an archeologists wet dream, someone to explore with eyes wide with wonder and conversations in the kitchen. Here I think a line about apple-pie and hamlet which reminds me your flatmate reads this so instead of typing it, I suppress the urge to wave. The look on your face when you were looking at the ocean, that's what I see. Half open eyes and a look of almost surprised contentment. The outside world, so beautiful and something rarely visited. The impression you gave, "I like you too much, I'm so sorry."

A vast pool, you said, of clear blue. Shallow from one end of the bay to the other, it never goes past far past your knees.

It sounds like the sky.

The part of me that lets my fear die, it knows better. It sings to me that you leave to forget this place and possibly the people in it. Lying in such clear water, I know that I would let the architecture of Vancouver drown underneath me like an unwanted cat in a bag. I would close my eyes and listen for new people to fill my life with and then I would find them. You are unlikely to bring me a picture, unlikely to stand at the side of the velvet water and focus a camera, my name the plane of your chosen angle.

This won't stop me writing you. I still want to illuminate your life like manuscripted letters. Until there is a cease and desist, I will try to convey what you seem to me, faded love or no. Nature or nurture, I look up to your window when I pass and I'm always sorry when the light is off. I blew you a kiss before you left, thinking of the glitter when we sat at the top of a dry water fountain that looked like a stepped pyramid and talked about lock-picks.

Happiness is one of those permeable things. I was happy then, though I didn't know what I was doing or what was going on. I didn't care. It's been on my mind lately, how different I was this time last year, how my life was more important to me. Thoughts preying like a fever on my loneliness. It never used to be something I would consider. Time passes. Either it happens or it does now. All I carry with me is in me, a basic understanding that escapes every Prometheus moment of victory I embrace. Thrown from the mountain, bones were broken and I'm not sure they're setting. I feel I've lost my liberty.

  • A prosecutor claims that a dominatrix dismembered and disposed of the body of a client who died of a heart attack during a bondage session in her makeshift dungeon.

    Today was a write off. Seems I've caught up on all the sleep I've lately missed, but that doesn't help me find employment. This hunt is beginning to fortify my thoughts of being a write-off.
  • Date: 2006-01-18 08:10 am (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] hakkenkrak.livejournal.com
    i've been meaning to learn how to pick locks.

    Date: 2006-01-18 11:50 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
    I need to remember to remind him, a few years ago he said he might be able to scrounge me a set. We could learn together then, with tools better than homemade twisty bits of wire, which truth be told, only work an incredibly lucky third of the time and never when I need them to.

    Date: 2006-01-20 07:07 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] hakkenkrak.livejournal.com
    i have never actually picked a lock. but i would like to know how, just in case. also, it's an interesting life skill.

    also

    Date: 2006-01-18 08:17 am (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] hakkenkrak.livejournal.com
    it was nice to see you. your hair is astonishing.

    and i will come beat your thoughts of being a write-off with a big mossy stick.

    Re: also

    Date: 2006-01-18 11:51 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
    Then you simply must come next week, and the week after that, and the one after that as well. Course, that is, the days that don't interfere with your poetry career. My only found drawback to mondays is that I've all but fallen off the earth poetry-slam regarding.

    also, we should do tea. it's pretty outside.

    Date: 2006-01-20 07:12 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] hakkenkrak.livejournal.com
    i shall come again. some time or another i will get back to the poetry slam, but i've no new pieces, and no real reason to perform.

    there's a show at montmartre on wednesday that i am signed up for. [livejournal.com profile] mojgani is going to be there, and he is AMAZING. he won the individual finals at nationals this year. so it will be rollicking fun.

    soon i will spam out to lj. but you now know first. whoo.

    Date: 2006-01-24 03:27 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
    I'll try to remember. I was due for that neighborhood ANYway, what with kareoke being only a few blocks down.

    Re: also

    Date: 2006-01-24 03:25 am (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] hakkenkrak.livejournal.com
    have you seen these?

    also, no movie night for me tonight. i am feeling quite sulky.

    boingboing had it

    Date: 2006-01-24 03:29 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
    Yes, I have. Lovely thing, isn't it? I've been considering trying to find out how to get something similar done, now.

    Date: 2006-01-18 10:32 am (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] dinyel.livejournal.com
    you've been suggested as a read to me... just wanted to let you know why i friended you out of nowhere. i like real, honest writers. good luck with your job hunt!

    Date: 2006-01-18 11:48 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
    All the way from Philly... Who suggested m? *grins* Lovely to meet you. I'd love for you to stick around. The more the merrier.

    Date: 2006-01-18 11:56 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] dinyel.livejournal.com
    nice to meet you too! [livejournal.com profile] antastra suggested your livejournal. :)

    Date: 2006-01-18 03:42 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] diosa-en-disfra.livejournal.com
    i just watched the princess and the warrior. and when it finished. i watched it again.

    Date: 2006-01-18 11:53 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
    More than most films, I want to see Tom Twyker's True and all the connected films.

    Date: 2006-01-18 04:30 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] mckenzee.livejournal.com
    Today the sky is very loud. It keeps trying to break into the house.

    Date: 2006-01-18 11:53 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
    Todya here the sky has lightened. It is spring.

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