muse ariadne

write a piece that uses all or most of this pool of words—glisten, slow, starlight, fruit, molten, calm

starlight fruit
		

try to make your writing as silent as possible. i know it's a weird prompt-- don't take it too seriously. have fun. what does it mean for writing to be quiet?

summary
					snow lies heavy and thick
					on the bottom of the roof of that vast maw

					filter feeder in stygian blue
					at a glance
away			left in the eyes like a word
					on tip of tongue
					
like
warm skin
grazed by anxious fingertips
or
reverse vertigo; falling up
death not by ceasement but by a rendering powerless (or: death)
ground gives way up

				
into empty picture frame



		holes in the night  sky
		fraying	cloth	threads
				     between snaggles of sheep
		  grazing			or nuclear mushrooms
										whatever we pretend to see up there, from the
			     grass

		         below














		laboratory observation requires perfect stillness
		  psychologist armchair with empty notepad




			
what is it like?
				
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take time to explore different structures of whatever you like to write. for poetry, consider writing a pantoum, ghazal, or abecedarian (some of my favorites). for an essay or fiction, consider writing vignettes, something in epistolary form, a diptych/triptych piece, a frame story, or a circular narrative.

----| |---------------------| |----
    =o=			    =o=
    " "			    " "
jaw shifting as clockwork, there is
red light beaming through the holes
of her skull, a soft cottage cheese
fleshy	overgrown	     O- AB+
visage	   family tree	     actgct
of the		 twisting    dna in
to-be-		▯    roots   spiral
dead a	  door       spiral  an int
washed	 darkroom   round    estine
in icy	     a locked        thread
blood.			     a nose
fenced	  above dark pool    choked
statues			    in dust
thread dangling little windows of a
distant open air. every person is a
trembling photograph, all damp with
chemical soup, a long exposure shot
paper as marble, ink as untouchable
shadow, immaterial and disappearing
around the finger tips. a fleshless
divine i will gnaw till all that is
left are perfect noble marble bones
		

write about echoes, sound, and reverberation. what is an echo—just sound or something more? how can it reverberate through past, present, and future? can emotion be an echo in that way? what else can be?

a piece inspired by two famous dali paintings, and . consider exploring movement, slowness/speed, heat/cold, and warped sensations.

vast tarmac ocean.
i usually pick imagery for the idea, not the other way around. this was interesting!
one of my earliest nightmares i can remember is the floor melting and sucking me in. i'll try to capture that

when the world ended
the sun burnt out my eyes
haunting angel goes unseen
but not unfelt
in the wake it leaves in the rippling heat
bright shadows of lighthouse panopticon
heart in a ribcage, caught
in the headlights
of a car that suddenly
swerves through the floor
asphalt mad with hunger
leave me shaking
and alone

eat me! heat me!
i am the only cold thing in this world
roads into rivers of
dripping bubbling tar
heat into hunger for
dripping skin and fat
roads into rivers into
vast tarmac ocean
all roads lead to rome
the great city stretched like taffy
bottomless parking lot

haul yourself out of the starving sea
but tar sticks eternal
leaden and lethargic
where do you think you're going?
don't bite off more than you can chew
a clogged windpipe is still drowning
don't you know the saying?
roads to rivers to rome, over and over
a frozen pheonix dies eventually
swim or your lungs stop working,
but swimming starves the lungs just as well
two ways to hell, why try
sit, let the earth eat you!
nowhere to run, asphalt into lava flow
nowhere to run, tar up the nose and behind the
eyes still trained on the thing in the sky (sigh)
lighthouse above the pitch, where sinners go to die
"stay in your assigned cell,"

hopscotch
across the thousand scorching metal hulls
the thousand poison air fresheners
dance on burnt toes across burnt out headlights
(ignore the tar heavy on the shoulders)
performance for your endless gaze
(frozen hands fumble on the keys)
a stage made of family cars
sinking slowly, slowly down
towed into ink deathgrip, eaten alive
in dusty garage drowse

above, above
the place where tar lets free
there's a two millimeter hole into heaven
in the cupola above the sea
but the devil follows me like a begging dog
the light in the light in the sky
traps me in a falling funhouse
butterflies grow eyes
that all look like yours
wards against the beast in the dark
"aren't you ashamed?
when the warden turns his lantern to you
ridges of your maw cast in stark relief
aren't you ashamed?
oh, idiot animal"

as above, so below
death in two suits
choose your own adventure
only has one last page
analyzing star charts and tabloids
maps that only label oceans
the doctor concludes i grind my teeth
because im anxious when i sleep
i starve for something
i am unable to eat
i can't help dreaming of
when you smear my face as glistening paint
when your hands swim through my thawing guts
when you tug my flesh from my body
body heat gently melting skin
i can't help the terror
pavlovian flinch
i can't see, i can't see
everyone wants to eat me
is god a lover or a warden
do i disgust you
o slow blinking eye
i disgust myself
so what can i ask of you
i don't know
one day i'll be there with you
in the cupola above the sea
till then i fall before the light
of that blinding beacon
impossibly tall
slip back into the tar
trapped in a parked car
left in drive
		

a worldly place that is a threshold for you. this can mean anything—maybe it's some place between end and beginning, forward and backward, past and present, here and there, friends and lovers, or something else entirely!

where the steps collapse into the sea
heavy under the weight of the air
where the doves stand upon the waters
building an olive tree out of twigs
sits the bus stop on a cliff
next stop vapor and a quick death

spiraling compass proffered skyward
needle point digs into skin
my map does not match these roads
drawn by my palmlines
drawn by the shadows of the shadows
of the powerlines hung with dead birds

the sun came down to beg me
pack up everything you have been
here are your cardboard boxes
death comes quickly like a stone
when the waters crash down you will not be there
run away, runaway

but
am i doing it right
am i labeling these right
when i am gone will you find
what you are looking for here
when you are gone will they find
what they are looking for here

and
will it be a way out or a viking burial
taking flight or a bus off a cliff
am i a bird or a flying fish
to be caught in the fisher's net
to be caught in the duct tape and cable
am i capable of meeting your eye
am i capable of staring into the blinding sun

i am on the last bus leaving home
i am waving goodbye from the bus stop
eerie silence tensed like an animal
as the duct tape bursts
as the waterfalls reach out of the sky
fumbled disappearing trick
will i be there