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Rachel - Status: Member
- General Addict
- Female/United States
- Offline for 1w 2d 14h 7m 51s
- Deviant since Feb 1, 2008, 9:38 PM
Recent Deviations
SynesthesiaSynesthesiaSynesthesia
That bashful Saturday we saw jazz in pearl gray satin. A singer’s voice textured like moist earth.
Your kisses exploded purple
as a humid thunderclap. The smell
of smoke scratched against my skin.
Remember how
you caressed my cheek at one hundred and three degrees?
And you whispered
indigo flannel in my ear.
in Open on 3/1/08
DoeDoeDoe
It was just after dusk. A doe lay dying
in the stones by the side of the road, and I was miles away from my father’s gun.
Radiator fluid spread like strange green blood
from the battered front end of my Jeep. People
were sleeping. The night birds sang a dirge.
When did I become someone who could listen
to the rattle of a dying animal trying to breathe
and not weep? One day I watched my first
grade class gather like feral dogs around a boy
curled on the hard-packed ground, hugging himself
while another boy reared back his leg and kicked,
an
in Open on 3/1/08
WellWellWell
The only neighbor old enough to remember where they dug it thinks she’s an ordained saint named Betty. It’s true that she was twenty-seven once. There was a man who filled her nights
with the smell of sweat and lumber. That was the summer they nailed it shut. The well I mean. After what happened with that poor
Weston boy, it was the best thing. The mother sat for days
on the crude stone wall, trying to understand that dark water, losing her mind by the minute. Anyway, that’s all history. What I meant to tell you was how that well is lost now, how grass h
in Open on 3/1/08
BostonBostonBoston
I can’t get rid
of Boston. It seems a Mecca, a kind of focus of light.
What nonsense!
This New England maiden is, in her way, alone – stiff slim visions
everywhere, her clear quiet eyes skirting obscene abysses, suspecting them. Brambles tearing her robe.
After all, holding her stainless, fearless figure
you can view something striking.
in Open on 2/22/08
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Devious Information
- Current Age: 26
- Current Residence: Mishawaka, IN
- Interests: poetry, philosophy, religion, constant reading
- Favourite movie: Pulp Fiction, Dead Poet's Society, Boondock Saints, Long Kiss Goodnight, Passion of the Christ
- Favourite band or musician: Fiona Apple, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Lauryn Hill, Bahamadia
- Favourite genre of music: soul, r+b, blues, gospel, hip-hop
- Favourite artist: Picasso, Dali
- Favourite poet or writer: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Franz Wright, John Milton, Dante, Voltaire, Barbara Kingsolver, Rilke
- Favourite cartoon character: Shake from ATHF, Stewie from Family Guy
- Personal Quote: "Live the questions." ~ Rilke
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Devious Comments
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i'm, complicated
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Every woman adores a fascist. ~ Plath
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i'm, complicated
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we got stars directing our faith ***** I've got five!
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The first fire of childhood burns on the skin, starlight blazing unrestrained.
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