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I don't take photographs of food;
I write about my dinner
with forks and knives.
I write about my dinner
with forks and knives.
Literature
notesleep
playing my emphases like harp strings
your voice smokes thru the oaken bramble
pour a carbonated apology, a sun-stained
mile marked envelope, two ill-fitted birds,
hands small holes right before a rush of river
what it feels like being swallowed from the outside
crushing rings into truth serum, pretend
to be out of tune with that deception
I have been unable to parse my own persona
a pink cotton voice I remember thru the phone
I remember because it formed me into a granary
one crop after another of patriarchal idioms
whisper my secrets so softly into a glint of red hair
a saucer-eyed lace pattern cut into pine paper
I practice radical self lo
Literature
Apocalypta
Dawn breaks soft,
You are sun glare
in the rearview;
and I, the heavy mist
ahead
on a road that forgets to end.
Literature
consecrate
authenticity an arsenic
in morning coffee, in the smiles
pressed like ironed laundry,
because I feel like one wrong breath,
one wrong kiss between glossed lips and soft jaws
and I will be nailed to a cross
deception a shame rising like steam,
where teeth grind against each other
like clockwork gears, tick tick ticking
while the tongue kisses the roof of its cathedral
like a prayer to gods yet to be named
because her face is a mosaic window
shining the sin out of love
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Written 8/17/2015
Part of the Bitlets project.
Bitlets 422 © 2015 Nic Swaner
Part of the Bitlets project.
Bitlets are about quantity, not quality. Free-write at least one a day about what is on your mind, going on around you, or the state of your life. Ignore the urge to edit; it's not about being profound on purpose, it's about stumbling on it by accident.About this Bitlet
I personally resent the term foodie. Yes that picture of cheesecake looks yummy but I don't know anyone who makes polaroid-flavored cheesecake.Browse Bitlets
Bitlets 422 © 2015 Nic Swaner
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Aye aye! Can relate, even if sometimes I do snap a pic, but only to tease those who haven't left the office yet
This also resonates with me in another level. Writing about food with forks and knives...as in, you know, experiencing the thing instead of writing about it. Some of those little pleasures in life could be described in a story or whatnot, but I find myself more prone to simply enjoy 'em heads on without giving them a spot in my notebook.
This also resonates with me in another level. Writing about food with forks and knives...as in, you know, experiencing the thing instead of writing about it. Some of those little pleasures in life could be described in a story or whatnot, but I find myself more prone to simply enjoy 'em heads on without giving them a spot in my notebook.