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Lit of the Week 56! *Blacksand459, =whatpumpkins and ~EmaciatedandEpitaphs 

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6 deviants said WherewithalOnce I met a girl who carved the world flat just to tell me I was beautiful.

It went without warning, in the morning when we left our sheets and searched for a bed of leaves beneath my mother's apple-tree; I settled crooked as she leaned against my side, and even as my muscles cramped I wouldn't shift her burden from my shoulders even to walk a free girl again. I was the real Atlas, the true one so willing as to ask to bear the weight of the world on her back for all of time, and you wouldn't know it to look at a ghost like me.

August, I said to her, and when I waited for her calling voice to come back I couldn't stop thinking about the way
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4 deviants said Sweet Cream and AcetyleneYou were two parts of the same thing
One part sweet cream
And one half liquid acetylene

You nervously strode upon the deck
Of a whitewashed ship
In London Neck

I asked you to sit, be quiet, or knit
You flamed and retorted
I should have accorded
You the pleasure of having a fit

Your drama is archaic
You exhume prosaic
Dalliance and effusion
In beauteous confusion

O save me! you cried
As wine stained your dress
You gnashed and worried
Till your tresses were meshed

Back in the cabin
You said you were sated
After nine shots of absinthe
And three pints of raicilla*

You don't know the difference
Between courtesy and collusion
Your prim-ros
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4 deviants said maybe she's too youngAstrid smelled of plums.  It was a gentle scent, emanating wisps of invigorating pleasure.  
She smelled glorious, mouthwatering, delicate.  I couldn't resist such an aroma.
She looked so frail.  She had skin stretched across her limbs in flimsy, translucent layers.  
I was terrified of touching her, afraid she'd crumple beneath my fingers.

Her lithe, bird bone fingers caressed my blistered calluses.  Astrid then pressed her icy
palms to my aching flesh.  Silly girl, she was trying to comfort me.

It was wrong.  I felt bloated, my chest inflated with conflic

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~emilyericson Jan 19, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
They're all too good. I can't choose.
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