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General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
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Pau

mixedmusic333's picture

Your new-varnish
maple constitution
and slender shoulder-
to-hip curves translate
languages hidden beneath
charcoal black facades of
bland obscurity. You
and me and we throw them
feverishly back into the
walls and the floors
and the ceilings and ourselves
wondering at how the
languages never sting our eyes
and how so many few
speak them like
you and me and
we chuckle like the
wind sounds after rainy days
and we're in tune with
everyone
even if it's only
for sometimes one moment
that you make sense
to me and I
make sense to you
and we make sense with
each other.

rebel_angel's picture

I like

Submitted by rebel_angel on May 19, 2008 - 18:15.

I like this a lotttt. The lack of punctuation..if it was intended..i think really adds to the piece and connects the idea of the me, the you, the I.

very nice.

mixedmusic333's picture

Thank you! The lack of

Submitted by mixedmusic333 on May 19, 2008 - 18:23.

Thank you!

The lack of punctuation was definitely intended. I got a new cello recently and this is it's first poem :)

I christened it Pau after Pablo "Pau" Casals.

misilover's picture

WHAT HAPPENED TO

Submitted by misilover on May 20, 2008 - 14:50.

WHAT HAPPENED TO DOREN?!?!?!?!?!

misilover's picture

MM.

Submitted by misilover on May 20, 2008 - 20:40.

How was the audition?

mixedmusic333's picture

ah, mas o menos. I'll fill

Submitted by mixedmusic333 on May 20, 2008 - 20:44.

ah, mas o menos. I'll fill you in tomorrow. I walked out of there looking like a tomato on fire.

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