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Lit of the Week 49! reflectionsinwater, mystichuntress and TheGreatSpyExpirim 

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7 deviants said Flower FishWritten after Harrison
(George Harrison Ford)

His eyes are like a red ring of tiny blossoms
springing from patterned navy beds.
With a sharp twist through the water he fans out behind him
a bouquet of tall violet fronds,
a forest, a ballooning flamenco skirt  
tapering white at the edges.
It is hard to tell where the tail ends and the fish starts,
like an enhancement attached all around his body
crowning him,
he is so much lesser without the tail,
so much smaller, just a blue-black comma.
Motionless, suspended in the water with
tissue-paper fins undulating,
he might as well have earned his place beside the
stolid shot glass
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4 deviants said AnagramsI:

Jays walking across
An auburn sky, fall froze. Lined

Leaves blazing soft, a shade to blood raged storms.
Why does she still stroll? : wood bones rattle from

(Ours) that tick: Nature sings a lullaby
as she lies by his deathbed, she
Coughs; warm lips are red, but

Kind winds blow in frost.

II:

Albatross! Your angel wings roar
Guised as the phoenix rose.
Poised, you dwell in tar-pitched skies, a moor
Floating on blue depths: it dozed
Anxiously, flying in palace air
Dancing at violet dusk:
Whirling, her tango plumes have flair,

And he? Well, no one wanted his velvet musk.
Rise my queen, for my ink describes you not!
I, the pr
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3 deviants said Woodland Diner part 1The flashing blue neon sign winked half-heartedly in the darkening sunlight. It hang lop-sided over the entrance of a worn, yet well-visited diner. "Aunty Ann's Woodland Diner", it read.
The joint was screaming for refurbishment. Shutters slouched in their hinges; the heavy wooden door protested in the lightest of breezes; solar panels struggled to capture the dying  sun spilling through the trees; the eye-catching red paint was losing its lustre; mulches of dead soggy leaves littered the perimeter, like a red carpet to a five-star restaurant.
Because out in the woods, when the last gas-station was over seventy kilometres away and the next

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