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Get Under

Even if you go there will always be an open door waiting for you that leads into a room with roses on the table. The person who I am when I’m with you will be dashing from corner to corner straightening books on the shelf washing the dishes or when it’s all done sitting at the table with pen and paper seeing if what he feels is a poem. I won’t be him as I walk back into a world without you slipping out the side door but I’ll feel him there: a weight in my pocket or a catch in my breath made of hope tied into a knot. And every passing shadow every rustle of leaves will give him life as he waits and wonders when you

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49 deviations
Literature

Get Under

Even if you go there will always be an open door waiting for you that leads into a room with roses on the table. The person who I am when I’m with you will be dashing from corner to corner straightening books on the shelf washing the dishes or when it’s all done sitting at the table with pen and paper seeing if what he feels is a poem. I won’t be him as I walk back into a world without you slipping out the side door but I’ll feel him there: a weight in my pocket or a catch in my breath made of hope tied into a knot. And every passing shadow every rustle of leaves will give him life as he waits and wonders when you

Featured

48 deviations
Literature

Calliope

I had a picture book of Ancient Greek mythology, on which I learned to read. Ask me my favorite books today, I'll speak of it before all else. It was the seed of these nine sonnets, and my fool's desire for epic hero fiction and romance. Damn finance, law, computers—I aspired to chivalry and trickster tales, to dance and martial arts. But this, I wanted most: to find a princess at the dungeon’s core who’d laugh defiance at some villain’s host— who didn’t want a rescue, but a sword. One thousand Helens later, now I choose one Atalanta. Sing to me, O Muse.

Muse Sonnets

9 deviations
Literature

Imperium Formicarum

"You know I generally don't do this kind of thing," said Mitreus Rake, his toaster-sized gnarled hand engulfing Piton Andragos's as the two men met in friendship for the first time in a decade. "You're Sectoris Minister Veritatis now, and I still haven't forgotten about that one time on Kalag III, so I owe it to you-but I hope you feel sufficiently blessed by the God-Emperor's immortal spirit-may he rest in peace until such time as he sees fit to rise again at his leisure-to know you've dragged a Marshal of the Black Templars away from bashing heads in." "Mitreus, my friend," said a smiling Minister Andragos, "believe me, the blessing is not

fan fiction

2 deviations
Literature

Elegy for Kate

Maybe if I knew you better, I wouldn't have this dilemma: seeing you drunk at a bar, sleepily cursing the sun as you wake from too little sleep, or crying at some too- critical comment on one of the pieces you wrote (you never told me just what it is you best like to write, so I just imagine your words shaped into forms like your bones, unpretentious and smooth, unashamed of their elegance). But I haven't the luxury of knowing your faults, and to dream false flaws myself just plays into troubles I already suffer: draping your delicate shape, stretched like a spiderweb over my mind's eye, in all simultaneous beauties, and hewing fro

Greek and Latin meter

3 deviations
Literature

Aniconism

I hid my true love’s face in a castle on a rock its bailey was blunt and chapped and red like a sunburn, mountain grass licking its base I built an arch for each memory of her shaped like two cupped hands outlined in geometry but hollow asking us in it wasn't until I built the last room that I realized I'd neglected to depict her I wanted to her image was every thought I had but none of them showed her face I couldn't remember I didn't know why years later a cleric wandered through after I'd been lost there for years tiling the walls with rose-dials ivy lattices every color and shape but hers and he complimented me on my work, actua

free verse

16 deviations