Okay, so on my teaching site, I was talking about how I want to be able to make some of those abstract authors more appealing to future students. That's going to take some thinking, I'm sure. But since this is my writing site...
I find that these authors tend to be the most inspiring for me; I can't get over it. So, even though I haven't been writing lately and am feeling heartsick over never taking the time, I'm going to try to write one. If it's too painful to read partway through, you have my permission to stop. :-)
Stargazing Chains
With nothing limbs and spider webs,
their eyes told stories in picture frames
of slanted lilies and blinking chains.
Whispers went of how the rain came down,
and they waited for the laminated gestures,
such tainted lilies too trampled lame.
(It’s strange how we tainted each other,)
the secrets too battled across the dying fields
and smeared magenta trails of stargazers.
Might I whisper once more in thunder
how crimson charades left these lilies
coughing too deeply to drown.
© McKenzie Lynn Sanders, 20 March 2008
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