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Dreaming of Solace by `krissie:iconkrissie:

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I am almost healed. Airplanes
turn into witches in the sky.
Borges stole my heart
in a drafty canyon, edges raw
as a reoccurring thought.

My fingers burn with greed.
I hunger for Argentinean hills
on midnight walks, passing
drunken laughter on the sidewalks
of the homeless, shoelaces untied.

Echoed plains call for me, faded silence
and stones that whisper goodbye
in autumn's voice. Longing.
Moss covers half-burned photographs
as the wind cries dust my way.

I am almost healed.

Skyscrapers cut the moon in half,
I hunger for Buenos Aires.
Turn off the lights and my eyes:
the wind licks my breath
on its way to a canyon in the air.
©2006-2009 `krissie
:iconkrissie:

Author's Comments

You've probably read this one before; I'm putting it back up here because I think it's the best thing I've ever written. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe sentimental, maybe narcissistic, but I wanted to share this with you. Whoever you are.

And I'm not so fond of the title, so that might change eventually.

From spring 2005.

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=kango Jan 30, 2006, 1:04:12 PM
Cool,i love the "Skyscrapers cut the moon in half".

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Sometimes it`s good to be bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evillaugh:
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*anarchypress Feb 2, 2006, 9:00:32 AM
This is good.

~M

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You are the circus, I am the freak. [link]
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~catching Feb 2, 2006, 10:22:40 PM
I like the use of landscape here, canyons vs. plains. Especially liked the quasi-sexual imagery of "in a drafty canyon, edges raw." If "Airplanes / turn into witches in the sky" means what I think it means, this is one of the best lines I've heard in a very long time.
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`krissie Feb 3, 2006, 9:36:44 AM
What do you think "Airplanes / turn into witches in the sky" means? ;)

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~delliversagain Feb 4, 2006, 2:12:51 PM
is reoccurring the same as recurring?
is recurring the same as reoccurring?

did that just occur again?

it does have a sort of Borges flow about it, it just needs some kind
of a trick. Borges in his poetry is the magician at turning broad descriptive
into detailed hints or taking broad philosophical ideals and intensifying them
with descriptive.

I fell in love with Borges too. There's actually a cafe in Buenos Aires
where there is a colorful statue of him sitting at one of the table reading
while drinking coffee by the window as if he never left.

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"I just want you to be happy
because it´ll make me happy that you´re happy."---DS#2
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!spectabillis Feb 7, 2006, 5:19:06 PM
I guess you miss the place, does feel sentimental.
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