It was barely a whisper, hardly audible over the far-off rumble of the lake. It hung in the air though, digging at my skull while I clawed for something, anything to say. I could grind at that soil all night, but I couldn’t dig up the right words. They dangled like fishhooks in my throat and the harder I pulled, the deeper they dug in, ( Read more... )

Drunk livejournaling just prior to passing out on the couch is just so classy.

languishing at the
bottom of empty bottles
we discover us.

Gravedigging

It was quiet. The distant sounds of the lake-the low rumble of the tide, the shrill cry of a gull-were broken only by the heavy crunch of the shovel as it drove into the earth. It was a rough dirt, grainy with sand and clay. The sun was a pale disc, veiled behind the blanket of clouds that hung heavy over the dunes.

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Gravedigging

It was quiet. The distant sounds of the lake-the low rumble of the tide, the shrill cry of a gull-were broken only by the heavy crunch of the shovel as it drove into the earth. It was ( Read more... )

               It was quiet. The distant sounds of the lake-the low rumble of the tide, the shrill cry of a gull-were broken only by the heavy crunch of the shovel as it drove into the earth. It was a rough dirt, grainy with sand and clay. The sun was a pale disc, scarcely able to make itself known behind the blanket of clouds that hung heavy ( Read more... )

scatterbrain. 2nd edit ( Read more... )

a young woman cries. 4th or 5th edit ( Read more... )

impetus. 4th edit ( Read more... )

the quiet hours. 4th edit.

In which
you recede, recess into
the tides of your unconscious,
tenebrous and cold.
Waters
that rise, swell
and crash--
break against the backs of your eyes.

Aimless, adrift
amidst a blind course
between breakers,
colored burgundy in nightmares
and a fear of open water.
Alone,
you shudder a cringe

before the heady currents ( Read more... )