I have not been able to fall asleep.

Hence, first poem in months. For those of you who weren't aware that La Casa de Merc is currently a 24/7 rape crisis center, warnings for themes of sexual violence/sexual assault do apply. I wouldn't call anything under the cut graphic, per se, but the metaphor isn't prettifying.

( What it says on the tin under the cut. )

romancing the stone

you have as much medusa in you
as a squid has ink.
like her, you wink
and turn a girl's blood to tar.

so scuttle clear
for better seas than this;
i'll calcify,
lips parted for a kiss.

... Don't read anything into it. >.>

juliet

The angel came to me like the last candle lit:
rain lashing the trees,
your shadow in the bed, your fingers
silhouetted over mine;
in a voice murmuring
"you were made to love."
If I could isolate its atoms and its
chromosomes,
adenine guanine cytosine eros,
s'agapo and the round compass of your arms ( Read more... )

Somebody's got a new muuuse~.

lol late-night poetry.

swan songI was going to puncture you ( Read more... )

It's funny ( Read more... )

HOT OFF THE PRESSES, Merc has a poem.

Oh God please feedback. I am so adrift with my poetry lately. IT CAN BE "nnnn work on XYZ?" feedback, as long as it is nice. >.> (Y'all are all nice, so that's not really an issue.)

boy of la manchaShe'll paint your face and fatten you on half-promises ( Read more... )

Now that National Poetry Month is ... uh ... officially over ...

divorcethey could be a pair of objects ( Read more... )

Written right the fuck now. (3:45 am.)

Making zero sense.

why total utilitarianism scares rich kids in the small hours of the morningI don't believe in the separateness of persons after dark ( Read more... )

Anybody know any good resources for finding non-sketchy writing contests? Preferably plays, poetry, novels.

for liraphila: some kind of muddled thinking, "haze" and "fumble"I have a paper to write ( Read more... )