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Love in Hexasyllables XLIII: The Hidden Word
Making my way to you ( Read more... ) -
Love in Hexasyllables XLII: Breaking Up For Dummies
Dear [name of ex-to-be],
There is no easy way
to break the news to you,
[blundered attempt at tact].
I just want you to know
[lame excuse or reason],
but I really am
[empty apology]
I will always treasure
[Hallmark card memories],
and I hope we can ( Read more... ) -
Love in Hexasyllables XLI: The Scientist & The Skater
Skating with you across ( Read more... ) -
Love in Hexasyllables XL: Boarding Passes
As you pace back and forth ( Read more... ) -
Love in Hexasyllables XXXVIII: Adequacy
After Thom GunnWhen we wake in the night ( Read more... ) -
Love in Hexasyllables XXXVII: This Is What I Want
I want to be the loved ( Read more... ) -
The Uninvited
Note: The vocabulary for this piece was almost entirely restricted to a Swadesh list of 100 words, which explains why it's slightly circuitous and also why it's slightly odd, yet again.
One night, a long white road came down from the black mountain. Walking as one people, we came as a fire comes. The road was warmed by our feet. We walked as it ( Read more... ) -
The Black Undulation
Disclaimer: If this makes no sense, that's because it's not meant to. It's a grammatical regularisation of an auditory word-for-word substitution of an extract from H. C. Branner's De Blaa Undulater. (I do quite like how I've managed to stick in the word 'eldritch' at the end though.)Neither Katherine nor Aaron received their gifts till they came ( Read more... ) -
Toy Soldiers
A boy took a rifle and shot it because someone told him that this would make him a man; he was still a boy afterwards. Another boy took another rifle and shot it because he had seen the first boy do so; he did not become a man either. Then a third boy did likewise, and a fourth, and a fifth, and so on all about the room, and finally when the ( Read more... )