Heather is the one with the muscles ( Read more... )

There is a valley in Ireland called the Glenn Bolcain. It has four gaps to the wind, a breezy bay, bogs to the north, blue hills to the south, larks in the air and healing herbs in every cleft and cranny. Each year the madmen of Ireland congregate there to drink from the holy well and eat watercress and young nettles. They rush to the valley of ( Read more... )

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones ( Read more... )

The house is clean, the windows are open (to the lightning storm,) I'm fresh from the shower, and NOW it's comfy and I can breathe, crank the tunes, and enjoy a jumbo mojito (that left no footprints in the kitchen.)

(and they're like, It's better than yours ( Read more... )

Sigh ( Read more... )

To punish
men for their endless sins

God gave me
this fair skin,
this long black hair.

Yosano Akiko
1878-1942

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Andreev grinned.  "Anyway, dear Renko, what's your discomfort at a circus compared to mine?  I barely get to my seat before children start crawling over their parents to get at me.  To them a dwarf must be part of the show.  I should tell you that I do not appreciate children under the best of circumstances."

"Then you must hate the circus ( Read more... )