ShopDreamUp AI ArtDreamUp
Deviation Actions
Literature Text
her utterance swerves
in the vanguard of tumult
before it is molten
and molded into a river of clay,
then sculpted
into a bust.
(and it never
panned out the way
she wanted it to.)
this vacillation
is an effigy
of grandiose statu(r)es
and her locution stands tall
when the barricades
are torn down.
it only recoils
when defenses
are dam(m/n)ing
because weight
is not meant to float
in the gravitas of gravity.
in the vanguard of tumult
before it is molten
and molded into a river of clay,
then sculpted
into a bust.
(and it never
panned out the way
she wanted it to.)
this vacillation
is an effigy
of grandiose statu(r)es
and her locution stands tall
when the barricades
are torn down.
it only recoils
when defenses
are dam(m/n)ing
because weight
is not meant to float
in the gravitas of gravity.
Literature
if i hadn't had the drunk luck to meet you
i’d have married every bedside witch from here to east dallas
i’d have glistened like a worm to their mescaline psalms
i’d have mired in sinuous wineskin, repentant spectra
i’d Om along in cooing groups, babble with freethinkers
all my endeavors would be gas station derelicts
all of my wrongs would be quasi-continuous
even the over-sought moon would protest
and i wouldn’t recognize one half of the universe
Literature
eight times I fell in love with him
un
I fell in love
sitting on a cliff
overlooking my whole town,
all the buildings below
shining like little pastel boxes
in the late afternoon light.
beneath late-october leaves
he guided me gently
into my first kiss
like he was directing
water-starved flowers to a rainstorm.
when our lips at last brushed,
I felt him smile against my mouth
almost secretly,
as if he were surprised by his own happiness,
and I knew I'd found a heart
that would play well with my own.
deux
in the pouring rain,
he walked beside me
with his nice blue collared shirt
held high above us
as a makeshift umbrella.
I held him around the waist
and he kissed me twice
wit
Literature
The Sum of Infinity
I don't know if I'll ever tell my children about you.
(I don't know if I'll even have descendants.)
A family was never on my to-do list,
until you came along.
You made me wonder if I wanted kids, just so I could say to them
"You know, the day your dad and I met…"
because I thought we could last forever,
and I'm still not sure if we have.
Our friendship endures, even as I fall asleep
picturing her arms around you,
and I wonder if you'll ever come back to me
but spend every day noticing the reasons I'm glad you left
and hoping you'll return.
Never intending to fall in
Suggested Collections
Comments34
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
The first few verses made me think of an actual bust.
But reading the last bit made my mind to a U-turn, thank goodness.
But reading the last bit made my mind to a U-turn, thank goodness.