Half-life
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls;
and their land shall be soaked with blood…
– Isaiah 34:7
How quick, how slow
Discrete entities decay ––
Is love discrete? How quick,
How slow: in as many days
Or as many months – depending
On the blush, darling; three months
They tell me. Give or take.
Three months, till all your blood is new.
Carried like oxygen, this love
In my blood, the newness compounding,
Its pulses doubling feeling until every beat
Of thi
I don’t know why I assumed
it would be a boy. Intuition,
maybe. Or perhaps, little
brothers were all I knew.
My third sibling paused
in the first trimester
and never hit play: a frozen
picture on the ultrasound.
Mom came home, stole
to bed, and shut the door
with a clack soft as thunder.
My third sibling is a silence,
forgotten outside the quiet
moments alone, when I wonder
what his name was.
FFM Day 22- A Jellies Guide by IntelligentZombie, literature
Literature
FFM Day 22- A Jellies Guide
i. Putting Yourself Out There! (It Can Really Suck)
Jet felt like a speck in infinity. A group of fellow jellyfish floated by, noisily chatting.
“Um, hello,” Jet whispered. No one replied. “Hi guys!”
One jellyfish drifted towards him. He recognized Susan and waved.
“Hi Susie!”
“Hello, Jet!”
Jet spun in circles, nervous. While twirling, he saw something odd: a man with elongated feet and a shelled face.
“Oh my, oh Susie, he’s back! Oh do you think he’d want to hang out?”
“Are you sure that’s him?” Susie asked.
“I think so!”
FFM 2015: The world breaks everyone by The-Inkling, literature
Literature
FFM 2015: The world breaks everyone
The landscape of my homeland has become an incomprehensible wilderness of charred remains through which I sift daily, searching for some remnant of you, though I know you are long gone.
All these years of fighting, for nothing. But I promised you I’d come back, come hell or high water, so that’s what I’m doing.
I take shelter in the mouth of a sleeping cannon, and watch as the horizon collapses like a burning star. And maybe this is the end, and maybe I died months ago, and maybe I didn’t, and this is all just a dream, but I remember the fire and the murder and the blood and you and I remember you and-
He awoke to sunlight in his eyes and the smell of her. Every day, he would stay in bed just a little bit longer than he ought to, just to bask in the glory of smell she had left behind. It was roses and mint and sandalwood and woman and a million other things he couldn’t have described, even if he tried, but it was her, and he would never forget it, as long as he lived, and probably not for a long time after he died.
But every day, the smell grew fainter, the sheets seemed to grow colder, and it was one more day since the last time he woke with her actually there.
"I've brought the rum," Casey said. She wiggled the bottle suggestively.
Jack fell out of his chair in his haste to get to it. Her. To get to her. The woman. Not the rum.
That beautiful, golden liquid. Skin, definitely skin. The sunlight was caught up in the rich, amber depths.
Of her eyes. Yes.
His mouth felt dry, yearning for wetness. He could just imagine the slow burn of it—her—warming him from within.
Jack tore at her thin chemise, desperate to experience the creamy—"Hey, where's the rum gone?"
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