No words. I dream here
Dear Foolish Wound
Dear foolish wound,
gaping gash in my pride,
self-inflicted affliction
of delusions of affection:
white room
So innocuous, this place with horizons for walls, this featureless room where our distillations meet. The air here reeks of the last word you wrote. With time, with silence the scent turns to rancid semiotic soup. The specter of every phrase goes brittle at the edges. I cut myself on them to make sure they […]
I’ve Never Had a Sonnet Written for Me Before
But I have one now. Written by the extraordinary GidgetWidget, please have a read at http://gidgetwidget.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/sonnets-new/
My Girl
Won’t let me touch. She pulls away, laughing. Not the giggle of a tease, But the hysteria of the damaged. She’s fucked up. And I pursue her anyway, grateful for her tolerance. What does that make me? Little by little, cast as the carnivore, she erodes me until I’m a smooth, rounded stone for her […]
Spine
Cervical I watch him fuck other women. He loves the fact that I watch. He smiles and I keep my secret: every flex of his muscle, every thrust into her cunt, is a shiny new nail in my spine, bracing me upright until I know I’ll never bend again Thoracic It hammers home, and home, […]
The Scar
This is all I know. The scars left behind by your attentions will not bring me comfort when you are gone. They will haunt me, and cause me to question my sanity at the time of my acquiescence.
Bequeathed
The key slid smoothly into the lock on the front door and opened with a sharp snick. This surprised Mina, although she was not exactly sure why, but it was the final step in the month long process of taking ownership of the house she had inherited from her great aunt Patty.
Reading for Nobilis & Other Newsy Stuff
I’ve been quiet of late. This is mostly because my new semester is looming like a vulture and I’m having to do a lot of prep for it. However, three bits of news. I was very honoured to be asked by Nobilis to read his story Wager for his weekly podcast. I had a great […]
We Just Aren’t That Simple
Nobilis pointed me in the direction of Figleaf’s “The No-Sex Class: Men, Women, and Gangbangs in Porn” which led me to “Once more into the breech” by Amanda over at Pendragon.net., which led me to “On Porn, Sex And Pincushions” over at Echinde of the Snakes.
Although each of them stray in their topics a little, all of them are worth reading, as they all deal with the subject of porn tropes, and how those play out in the reality of society, sex education and the bedroom.