love is        letting        go ( Read more... )

is this how you felt               when Joséphine tore out your heart
            when her womb lay bare,and she laid with another man

did Joséphine cradle your Spirit within her delicate hands
draped in silk&perfumed with       lavender

when she took Malmaison

did she seize your passions too

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" ipse "

"  a   demon   plagues   me,   brother

what     sort,     you     may     ask.

"  not one i've ever   dared   name

he     lurks     in     my     core

eating away   at     my     soul.

"  ask your sister, you say

ask her   for   blessings

and ask her for prayers.

inside, we both know

"  there is no escape

from     yourself.

"CAELVM"

the debate of astronaut versus astronomer
isn't one i give much thought -

it's always been obvious to me.

i   am   bound   to   wind   up
studying stars,             hundreds &
                                     trillions
of       light   years         a w a y.

oh, the laugh of bitter irony.     analogies
                                          ( Read more... )

"A440."

loving     you     is     like     -     turning

swirling colors         &a
                sick feeling) in my   (gut

spin,swirl.                     DANCE.

it    is   -   tuning       seven   &a           half ( Read more... )

"cadere" (to fall.)

falling out of love            is      not  
                                    a sudden or quick thing.

it start small. little disturbances      or   
                                        IRRITATIONS...

&then moves to fake      smiles    &laughs.
one day
you Realize;      one day
                        you Wake;

and the person ( Read more... )

Title: “the IKEA incident”
Characters/Pairing: Loki, Steve Rogers, Emma Frost.
Rating: PG
Length: 728
Summary: when Emma and Loki decide to re-vamp the flat, Steve is stuck in the middle of the never-ending feud.

"That wouldn't match any of the walls, Em."

"I thought we were painting the living room a different color anyway."

"No, we're painting the ( Read more... )

"die Mauer"

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
an escape towards the setting sun,
an escape from this bleak and dying town.
crying and
praying -
to be on the other side.

my brother has passed to the west,
hailing in freedom and revelry.
here i stand,
in the summer of '75.

they're building more walls,
concrete and ( Read more... )

Title: "a place to call home" 1/3.
Characters: Alex Summers, Scott Summers, Charles Xavier. others.
Rating: PG.
Summary: after Charles gets the Xavier Institute up and running, Alex asks him if he can bring his brother to the school.

When Alex entered the parlor on Tuesday, he was expecting for Charles to be alone. He sat at his desk with a small girl ( Read more... )