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[lizzie_marie_23]

I fucking love Richard Siken! His poems are long but so worth it. I'm on the edge of my seat for the entire journey and most of the time I'm flailing incoherently about SAM and DEAN. Especially You Are Jeff and Little Beast.

I have ideas in my head of pictures to draw, but I don't know where to begin to make them happen. Most of these pictures are

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[zempasuchil]

TALK TO ME ABOUT SIKEN OMG

YOU ARE JEFF IS INCREDIBLE. The last one, oh god. I want to take every part of that poem and make a graphic of Sam and Dean for it. I want to do that with the entire book, augh <3

BUT MY MANIFESTO FROM THAT BOOK IS "SNOW AND DIRTY RAIN". I WILL NEVER FALL OUT OF LOVE WITH "SNOW AND DIRTY RAIN"

do you have it? it is here if you are looking. I mean. there are black eyes and crossroads and hunters' hearts and oh my godddddddd

[lizzie_marie_23]

Oh my goodness, Siken! I was on motherlessguns last night and reading everything of his that had been posted. How does he know the things he does, steph, how does he know?

There's such a forcefulness to every word he puts down. It practically slams into you and then pulls you along until suddenly it's the end and you're crying and barely know why.

my black-eyed fire, the knives in the kitchen are singing
for blood, but we are the crossroads, my little outlaw,
and this is the map of my heart, the landscape

This little section made me stop for a moment because it's so full! The knives are singing and we are the crossroads. They don't just go to the crossroads, they are the crossroads.

Also the part about the monsters you put into the box so you can fight them made me do a little fist-punch because it's so perfect.

[zempasuchil]

I don't know how he knows omggggg. He wrote Crush before SPN. It's an incredible act of prophecy, or something magic.

You should read the intro by Louise Gluck. She says it's a book about barely-restrained panic and I think it is a panic at so much love and so much loss at the same time.

Yes yes yes those three lines! "my black-eyed fire" is naming something dangerous and precious, "my" because it's there to burn away at him. and yes yes! BEING the crossroads, they EMBODY that constant turning of choice, it's not some point life has led them to but they will carry the fulcrum with them wherever they go! they can't escape the crossroads everrrrr

yes the monsters, and then the monsters that always get into the flaw in the weld, and trying to keep them always on the other side of the theater curtain -
I crawled out the window and ran into the woods

[lizzie_marie_23]

I have a vague suspicion that the writers were sitting around working on Supernatural and then ran out of ideas, so someone said "Hey, let's read some Siken; he'll know what we should do"

I love Louise Gluck and I love Richard Siken, so it stands to reason that I'd appreciate the intro. Yes, the panic of feeling that you must do something but you have no idea what, so you need a slender boy with a handgun, a fast car, a bottle of pills.

They will carry the fulcrum! YES, exactly! It is not an aesthetic choice they make, but it will forever change the way both of them live or die. It's like a cart wheel that's turning and they're caught between the spokes. I don't know, it makes some strange kind of sense. Also, I neglected to mention the "map of my heart" which is so much win.

Oh words and how they work. There is pretty much no faster way to my heart. the letters kept smudging as I wrote them This is a gorgeous way to describe language and its failings. And I completely agree about it being Sam going to Stanford and back. IF THIS

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