Hound: Sir Henry Baskerville and Mrs Laura Lyons by SCFrankles, literature
Literature
Hound: Sir Henry Baskerville and Mrs Laura Lyons
Sir Henry Baskerville:
When he wants to do a task, he will.
Nothing will keep him from his ancestral home.
Even if the devil does let his hound roam…
Mrs. Laura Lyons
Loved the worst of the Baskerville scions.
She never picks the right type.
And so she’s left to typewrite.
An ode to you; a grateful nod to Snapchat
You sent me a Snapchat from Engadin St. Moritz,
a phone message from the Swiss Alps, thinking
of me in the midst of there, of all places:
wish u were here xx
The picture was beautiful, but only because
the frame was filled with your face.
Eight seconds wasn’t enough to
take it all in, but afterwards I could still see
you with my eyes clenched closed:
a smile like lime juice—fresh and stinging and sweet—
lips the blood of berries—made that way
by the cold, no doubt—lips I wanted to trace with
my tongue, lips I wanted to pore over like
a map of somewhere I wanted to go&mda
This night is lifewhite;
pirouetting nautilus frost
on ice milk skin,
coveting a coven.
The boughs of trees
through the city,
resting,
fingers still, touching.
Sleep wanders.
Great angels watch,
silver arrows,
bows of sky,
as light as light,
clean and clear,
sitting on the bookcases
and reading Charlotte's Web,
pacing the floors,
guarding the window's view,
one sings a childhood song,
one fletches arrows from wings of Silence.
The stars
in their sweeping chorus
with their clarinets of night
rub the shoulders
of the world;
the endless lullaby
of worthy, worthy things
the Night's song
of mockingbirds
and diamond rings.
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Punk Rock (Paper Scissors) by Third-Coast, literature
Literature
Punk Rock (Paper Scissors)
"I'm quitting drinking."
Punk rock's her other lip shade.
New leather jacket.
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they broke radios
as though the deconstruction
found them better bands
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The noisy neighbors,
the heathen gods live upstairs,
loud on a school night.
The Heart Dances Even as It Breaks by TheGlassIris, literature
Literature
The Heart Dances Even as It Breaks
Atop the clouds of Amherst
Emily Dickinson rules the garden
surrounding the blue in slanted light,
ringing Sylvia Plath’s
three-volume edition of hell,
where she sits enthroned
like Ereshkigal, Sumerian
queen of the underworld
a typewriter at her feet
and a boiling percolator of coffee
brewing in the far West.
Queen Mother of the Western Paradise
cradles a cup brimming with tea,
watching the rolling hills of Whitman
as he stands atop the green waves
hiding the sun beneath his love.
Mark Twain smokes a pipe, poking fun
at the swollen American Dream, which seethes
over the Fitzgerald palaces, where King Minos
dances both foxtrot and
she sells 9mm shells by the seashore,
says she can hear the ocean.
but if you listen close to these shells
you can hear ghosts.
something borrowed, something blue,
something broken, something bruised.
she traces her fingers across the autopsy scars
while she counts her bones like currency.
she'll leave your skin screaming,
and sink into the whites of your eyes like a shipwreck.
can you hear the ocean?