( wishing )

two boys, brothers, stand

tate sings: i am alive, o hear me world, for i am alive and bear it well!
his palms crest and curl and seize hold of the air,
bridling it, an elemental steed
for him to break, to tame
and captain wildly.

rafferty smiles: i am here. that is enough.
he lays his head to rest and braces gentle shoulders
against his brother, a ( Read more... )

 Just a quick update on what's been goin' down around the Mehling household folks.

If you've stuck around and read my bitchy posts, you'll know I was pregnant. 'Was' being the important part of that sentence because, yes, I have given birth! Rafferty Josiah Dylan Keats was born on October 11th at 11:45 pm, followed soon after by his brother, Tate ( Read more... )

the arrival of breath, the thrumming of hearts

it feels like drowning: watching them.
 each breath 
(the flutter of hummingbird wings)
barely drawn by small, raw lungs
every fasciculation of tiny new muscle
beneath translucent, paper skin,
like an arrow, tipped with hemlock.
did thetis, looking at her mewling son, feel this way:
small and lost
smothered by ( Read more... )

Hey dudes, just a quick update. I promise I'm not dead and I promise that neither is Lacrimosa. I am, however, nearing the point where "pregnant" becomes "very pregnant" and with that comes quite a bit of exhaustion and a general feeling of not being 100 percent. Throw into that the fact that it's summer (and therefore my creative muses are being ( Read more... )

STOP KICKING, BABIES.

Sigggghhhh.

I woke up sick. It's no surprise seeing as how the Dynamic Duo kept me up most of the night. *glares at womb* My nose is blocked and m'throat is raw and the one thing that would make everything all better is the one thing I can't have: coffee. Oh, coffee. I miss your sweet, sweet warmth.

Here is some Dean instead.


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You know what's great about being pregnant? The raging insomnia I had before I got knocked up now comes with leg cramps!

These kids better come out of the womb wealthy because I'm definitely demanding reparations. A little bling wouldn't hurt their chances of not being sold on the black market, s'all I'm sayin'.