The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Thu 4/27/06)

[RetroLounge]

Start/The Stopping

1.
my flames rise to the gulf of you.
i am the orange parachute in your black and white dream.
as my brilliance flares, your leaden tent
begins to form as skin.
my light is too slow in reaching your constellation.

2.
depression takes over
in the two minutes since you have left.
you move over me like frost.
if one hundred seconds
have wrenched blood from my heart so fully,
how will hours pass?
this minute prays for childless seconds, the time filled like ashtrays.

3.
the evidence has mounted:
a hand held loosely, by you and my wrist.
you surround me fruit-like, the rind torn away.
the pulp without shelter flows unconsenting.
the moon hits and hits
again. i trim the hangnail moon and close the blinds.

4.
there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak.
I am left
shut,
the quietest of blossoms.

Stella Padnos

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Stella Padnos is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Creative Writing from the City College of New York, where she won the Raymond Patterson Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of a 2001 Amy Award, which recognizes urban female poets under 30. She was nominated for a 2002 Pushcart Prize by Poetz.com, where her poetry can be found. Stella served as Associate Publisher of Rattapallax Press from 2000-2001. She has worked in numerous social service settings with varied populations including adoptive parents, the formerly homeless, and those afflicted with HIV/AIDS She would greatly appreciate any comments about her writing. [e-mail]

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RL

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[wildhorses]

1. the time filled like ashtrays.

time...gone up in smoke
the evidence left behind
worthless?

:shrug:


anyway :hi:

and oh yeah...about the KD Lang...;)

[miss_american_pie]

2. Damn

"there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak"

Ain't that the freaking truth?

[RetroLounge]

4. Sure is...

:hug:

RL

[Callalily]

3. How heart-wrenching RL!

depression takes over
in the two minutes since you have left.
you move over me like frost. :cry:

[RetroLounge]

5. "you move over me like frost"

Great image, I thought.

:hi:

RL