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~DarlingDante

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About Me Deviant Artist Member DarlingDanteMale/United States Recent Activity
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Our Sinking City For Summer

Do you remember the night you dreamt
you wore a wooden dress?
You thrashed against the splintered hem,
waking me, coverless, just after dawn.

That is how we are love:
confined
in the grain of an imagined garment.

We wake each morning,
eat, laugh, and make love,
all in an endless storm-wash of days.

The silt-bound Sabine eddies and stirs
near us, the riverbed clouded by bog-water,
but mud hides few mysteries,
and young nations hold no annals.

If only we would be drawn
to the new lights of an ancient city,
a place so weaved of the ethereal
that the sea moves
in a slow wash of increments
to reclaim it.

I know waOur Sinking City by ~DarlingDante
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Audubon, Great White Heron Bachman's cat would appear to be merely resting
in the evening sun
if it weren't for the bill speared through its heart.
The Heron is tall as a woman, twice as cruel,
and at least as beautiful.

I brought the bird all the way from Florida
as a gift for my friend,
a pillar of living ivory
to walk among his Magnolias.

But already it's swallowed a dozen ducks,
bitten several children, and now
(the most dire offense) slain poor Francis.

It will be shot and stuffed within the week,
but beasts can't be blamed
for their wickedness.

When it flew along the banks of the Keys,
it snapped up fish with the grace of sharpened wind.
My deckAudubon, Great White Heron by ~DarlingDante
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Audubon on the Purple Grakle The corn rows are ripe
with ochre and ashes.
Countless crows shake the field
with their calls while laying waste
to the crop in a sharp-billed early harvest.

Months before they saved farmers the labor
of plucking grubs from the new growth,
but country men are quick to forget favors,
so Elijah, the planter's youngest son,
stands beside me, the both of us armed
for our own harvest.

We have different aims:
Elijah wants to plump pot pies with gristle,
and I wish to pin wings
forever on the page.

I know the art isn't the animal,
and their shapes will come out crooked
and nefarious, their feathers robbed
of the coppery hue of suAudubon on the Purple Grakle by ~DarlingDante
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Held among the Harvest In the faint light of a roadside fruit stand
two old men talk of weather while smoking,
plums stacked behind them like sweet gobs of night.

Beside the taller of the two,
on the stump of a bolt-struck pine,
a crow twitches its feathers
in a makeshift cage of rope and twigs.

The tall man's eyes are the feral blue
of someone who's trapped the sky.
The bird has a song like shook gravel.

I half-heartedly palm peaches,
hoping for the story of its capture,
but the smoke-stilled conversation
never drifts from summer rain.

I fumble through the pears and berries,
what soft collision of color,
the taut and the pocked heaped togethHeld among the Harvest by ~DarlingDante
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Absence and Other Things

:icondarlingdante:

It has been a very long time since I've gotten on DeviantArt, but I plan to pop in more regularly now. I've gotten some things published, won some prizes, and started contemplating my graduate degree.

Oh, and I have a new blog [link]

Feel free to take a gander at it. It will hopefully manifest into a useful resource for aspiring poets, but at present it's in its infancy with only a couple of (hopefully helpful) posts.
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  • Listening to: Matt & Kim - "Cutdown"
  • Reading: Henry Taylor - "Barbed Wire"
  • Drinking: Coffee
Absence and Other Things February 23, 2011 No Comments No Favourites
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  • Interests: Reading, writing, music, whiskey and physics. Yup, that sums me up nicely.
  • Favourite movie: The Fountain, Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, and I'm sure many more than this bar can hold.
  • Favourite band or musician: The Birthday Massacre, Arcade Fire, Lacuna Coil, Say Anything, Opeth. There are really just too many
  • Favourite poet or writer: Ray Bradbury
  • Favourite cartoon character: Spike Spiegel (of Cowboy Bebop)
  • Personal Quote: Whatever happens, happens.

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*OperaSinger96 Mar 1, 2011  Hobbyist Writer
Thank you greatly for accepting #Scribes-Are-Beckoned's invitation! We look forward to seeing your word in our gallery.

Thank you,
~Lis

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"I'm a breathing time machine..." - Laundry Room, Avett Brothers

#Scribes-Are-Beckoned... for the zestier writers.
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~Solaces Feb 28, 2011
Your Audubon series is awesome.:heart:
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~DarlingDante Feb 28, 2011
Thanks so much. You're a damn fine wordsmith yourself.

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[link]
-An excellent resource for any aspiring poet.
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~Ninjastar13 Feb 23, 2011  Hobbyist Writer
Thnx for the fav!!
:)

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---Surrealism without purpose is like fish...
Peace :peace:
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*Nelleke Jan 12, 2010
Thank you for the fave! :D
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~DarlingDante Jan 13, 2010
Of course. It was a lovely image.

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[link]
-An excellent resource for any aspiring poet.
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*Nelleke Jan 13, 2010
I'm glad you liked it! Thank you!
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!tangled-up-in-blue Feb 23, 2009
I am in the process of moving and have packed up most of my books. When this is done and over with, maybe I will make you a mini collection of poems via scanner.
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!tangled-up-in-blue Feb 23, 2009
HOLY SHIT
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!tangled-up-in-blue Feb 23, 2009
I don't know, what do you want to read?
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