the underside of a pillow
the underside of a pillow
searching for the underside of the pillow
these blotted lines swim colorlessly
hemorrhage and drop, hemorrhage and drop
and in the background I luminesce
and hemorrhage and drop, drop, drop
the caterwauls have aligned again
they hemorrhage and spin, alight in their hymn
they cadence and swell, swerving the verve
an endless disjoint heart-beating dance
harmonic math blooms delicately in their silence
their thrumming thrashing silences
the mechanical yawping electrical spell
and dangerous heat, grasping to sear
in their mythical jargon that traipses and smiles
and arches in tiers and layer and lair
and liar and cursing
and whisp
Trigeminal Nerves
Trigeminal Nerves
I feel the crush of my lips beneath my teeth,
Our words colliding into a sea of fricatives and velar plosives in the chill air of night.
Lately, the weight of my teeth can't help but linger around the thought of you,
Settle its neuroses heavily into my bottom lip in some futile attempt to make concrete the fleeting sound of your voice
A voice which meanders through the silence of my daydreams.
But,
I realize,
as our words vibrate gently through the opacity of night,
for this shimmer of synapse to breath we share
I think I'd gladly worry my lips away.
Sequestered Semesters
Sequestered Semesters
my teenage acne scars
look more and more like battle wounds,
the year unfolding
like the sleepless nights that settle
into the skin beneath my eyes.
these nights
of dissolved kaleidoscope horizons
have faded into fluorescent basement walls
opaque as chalk crumbles from the ceiling
opaque as I am mute
but my only silence is noise.
words and words and words, never ideas.
I am haunted by their dry-wall voices,
these ghosts of people
translucent
beneath their
sunglass
Circulation
Untitled II
Untitled II
Malicious sea-witch from the cratered lagoon-
She cackles, unshackles her beast, rides her broom.
As she wipes from proboscis her fetid sea-slime,
She pushes the sadness back down deep inside.
Chiaroscuro
A Boy
A Boy
I want to find a boy to love,
but I’m afraid he’ll see
these lines about love at first sight
and never look at me.
Reverence
Reverence
I fell by the moonlight and splashed for a bit
In tumultuous shadows and labored to sit
In the crouching fluorescence that swims through the sky.
Hiding carved out tight ulcers and heaving black styes,
Here grow abscesses weeping, that sewage and broil
‘Til I languish in firmament, far from this soil
‘Til I’m sinking celestial, ‘til I shiver and smile
Misplacing the centuries, I’ll fade for a while.
These veins and dry rotting that I call my own
Will slip into specters until skin meets the bone.
Then the gaunt face will stare back through glossy white eyes
And my heartache will end as revered “temple&#
A Poem on Three Potent Words
A Poem on Three Potent Words
A Poem on Three Potent Words
Three words jumped out from the page as I looked
At Mrs. Johnston’s assignment, our last undertook
No long, drawn-out theses or million-paged books
Just a simple task, finding out which words can hook.
I saw zest, and soon, felt a whimsical glee
Course from head-top to toenail, electric in me
Bright-skins of lemons appeared in my head
And brought forth (a tone of apathy dead)
A story of passionate heroes who work
To reconstruct order to a town, berserk.
A smiling visage also enters my mind
Of some tireless protester (the feminine kind).
As she (some Ms. Rollins) tries hard to persuade
She resort
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the underside of a pillow
the underside of a pillow
searching for the underside of the pillow
these blotted lines swim colorlessly
hemorrhage and drop, hemorrhage and drop
and in the background I luminesce
and hemorrhage and drop, drop, drop
the caterwauls have aligned again
they hemorrhage and spin, alight in their hymn
they cadence and swell, swerving the verve
an endless disjoint heart-beating dance
harmonic math blooms delicately in their silence
their thrumming thrashing silences
the mechanical yawping electrical spell
and dangerous heat, grasping to sear
in their mythical jargon that traipses and smiles
and arches in tiers and layer and lair
and liar and cursing
and whisp
Trigeminal Nerves
Trigeminal Nerves
I feel the crush of my lips beneath my teeth,
Our words colliding into a sea of fricatives and velar plosives in the chill air of night.
Lately, the weight of my teeth can't help but linger around the thought of you,
Settle its neuroses heavily into my bottom lip in some futile attempt to make concrete the fleeting sound of your voice
A voice which meanders through the silence of my daydreams.
But,
I realize,
as our words vibrate gently through the opacity of night,
for this shimmer of synapse to breath we share
I think I'd gladly worry my lips away.
Sequestered Semesters
Sequestered Semesters
my teenage acne scars
look more and more like battle wounds,
the year unfolding
like the sleepless nights that settle
into the skin beneath my eyes.
these nights
of dissolved kaleidoscope horizons
have faded into fluorescent basement walls
opaque as chalk crumbles from the ceiling
opaque as I am mute
but my only silence is noise.
words and words and words, never ideas.
I am haunted by their dry-wall voices,
these ghosts of people
translucent
beneath their
sunglass
A Boy
A Boy
I want to find a boy to love,
but I’m afraid he’ll see
these lines about love at first sight
and never look at me.
Reverence
Reverence
I fell by the moonlight and splashed for a bit
In tumultuous shadows and labored to sit
In the crouching fluorescence that swims through the sky.
Hiding carved out tight ulcers and heaving black styes,
Here grow abscesses weeping, that sewage and broil
‘Til I languish in firmament, far from this soil
‘Til I’m sinking celestial, ‘til I shiver and smile
Misplacing the centuries, I’ll fade for a while.
These veins and dry rotting that I call my own
Will slip into specters until skin meets the bone.
Then the gaunt face will stare back through glossy white eyes
And my heartache will end as revered “temple&#
A Poem on Three Potent Words
A Poem on Three Potent Words
A Poem on Three Potent Words
Three words jumped out from the page as I looked
At Mrs. Johnston’s assignment, our last undertook
No long, drawn-out theses or million-paged books
Just a simple task, finding out which words can hook.
I saw zest, and soon, felt a whimsical glee
Course from head-top to toenail, electric in me
Bright-skins of lemons appeared in my head
And brought forth (a tone of apathy dead)
A story of passionate heroes who work
To reconstruct order to a town, berserk.
A smiling visage also enters my mind
Of some tireless protester (the feminine kind).
As she (some Ms. Rollins) tries hard to persuade
She resort
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- Aug 24
- United States
- Deviant for 16 years
- www.livejournal.com/users/abyssmalwind
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Current Residence: Stony Brook, NY; hometown: Las Vegas, NV
Favourite genre of music: post-punk, alternative, romantic period, bohemians!, "dream pop"
Favourite style of art: Art Deco and Art Nouveau, Experimental
MP3 player of choice: Anything! I'm happy to have any mp3 player!
Shell of choice: Conch of course! Don't you dare break it and transform into a savage.
Skin of choice: pimply opposed to Hollywoodish smoothness! Adolescence in all its splendor!
Favourite cartoon character: (comic) everyone from Daisy Owl
Personal Quote: "Amo, ergo sum."
Favourite genre of music: post-punk, alternative, romantic period, bohemians!, "dream pop"
Favourite style of art: Art Deco and Art Nouveau, Experimental
MP3 player of choice: Anything! I'm happy to have any mp3 player!
Shell of choice: Conch of course! Don't you dare break it and transform into a savage.
Skin of choice: pimply opposed to Hollywoodish smoothness! Adolescence in all its splendor!
Favourite cartoon character: (comic) everyone from Daisy Owl
Personal Quote: "Amo, ergo sum."
Favourite Visual Artist
René Magritte, Vincent Vangogh, Coco the gorilla, Munch, Yuri Bashmet, Kyung Wha Chung,
Favourite Movies
Edward Scissorhands, The Secret Garden, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
The Cure, The Mars Volta, Radiohead, The Smiths, Ravel, Psapp,
Favourite Writers
Poe!, Thoreau, cummings, Orwell, Roethke, Bradbury, Hawthorne, Palahniuk, Whitman, Ginsberg
Favourite Games
Miss Suzie had a Steamboat! Hand games are hardcore.
Tools of the Trade
a pencil and notebook in one hand, a viola in the other
Other Interests
music and daydreaming
I'm getting rather tired
I'm getting rather tired
of seeing that journal entry every time I visit my homepage.
Also! I've done a reading of T.S. Eliot's "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock." Sure I don't know a damn thing about making the video/podcast hullabaloo look even mildly presentable...but tell me, how can you say no to a passive, impotent middle-aged man? Oh, right. I see.
But the poem is brilliant. I assure you. My reading of it, dunno.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KBGqBxMyRo
So I'm thinking about divorcing my body right now.
So I'm thinking about divorcing my body right now.
As far as I can tell, I'm in for some more face swelling and mouth pains in the near future. Once again, it feels sore and ache-y on that side of my mouth, especially around that one troublesome tooth.
I was supposed to have everything cleared up once and for all by a procedure some time in September, after my emergency room visit and subsequent treatment appointments. However, I had a midterm scheduled during the only spot they had available, and, seeing as the current treatment was both intense and very effective (and the diagnosis was tentative/the procedure was a "everything-seems-fine-now,but-just-in-case,we-should-do-this,I-think" mane
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