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Daily Lit Deviations for February 13th, 2012

Feb 12, 2012, 10:16:42 PM by =DailyLitDeviations
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Daily Lit Deviations for February 13^th, 2012

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Poetry

_{Featured by: =LadyofGaerdon}

Coppersmith I caught a sun gold,
trembling bold
in my cupped palm.

Scorched copper was the curse
upon thee, woven
for so crippling me.

(Do I talk
to thee, too, Harmonia,
wandering free
in asphodel fields?

Or to thee – beloved?)

Lo – I grow too old
for bows and arrows, Eros.

"Coppersmith" by =Vigilo

_{Multi-layered mythology in less than fifty words.}

_{The author employs impeccable rhythm and warm,}

_{brittle longing to imbue each word with the}

_{power of hundreds.}

_{Suggested by: *Kneeling-Glory}

_{Featured by: =thetaoofchaos}

Redshift Theory Thirteen with an abrupt fondness
for poignant promenades
alone in the dark.

The deafening lull of cicadas
roaring and rustling soundly
between heart and brain
as the hormones ran a circuit.

Through your suburban homes I spied
a line of televisions
all reflecting blue.
Shortwave frequency,
no goals in sight,
no ambitions, no hopes,
no dreams.

Just smug complacency,
far from the red,
the dullest light,
the cheapest thrill.

Relativistic Doppler,
no night sojourns
into zero gravity,
no jettisons from orbit.

Just wiling away,
waiting for the universe
to cave in on you.

"Redshift Theory" by $fartprincess

_{Per the suggester: "There's usually something}

_{sharp in the criticisms teens find for the world,}

_{but not often do adults go back to those years}

_{and refine the edges of young observations. This}

_{short, well expressed poem does just that."}

Prose

_{Suggested by: =saevusWinds}

_{Featured by: *Kneeling-Glory}

A Dream in the Desert They had lost everything in the fire.

The wreckage lay behind them, sending off the occasional flare of smoke and light whenever the fire stumbled across another canister of fuel. As soon as they'd crawled to safety, Aidan had remarked that, at the very least, they still had their lives.

"Will that be enough?" Finn muttered to himself now, dragging his eyes away from the crumpled remains of their ship. For a second, he let his eyes skim near the sun. It sagged above their heads, groaning as it struggled to pull its heavy, swollen mass toward the horizon. Here, below, the planet could do little but succumb to its light—white and scathin

"A Dream in the Desert" by ~scarletbird

_{The suggester writes: "A Dream in the Desert"}

_{opens up several questions, and puts in just}

_{enough detail and loads of imagery to let}

_{you figure what happened all on your own.}</sub>

_{Featured by: ~doodlergirl}

Advertisements She was only six when the funeral homes started sending us advertisements, all competing with each other to be the best, to win her business. To win our business, more like; six is hardly old enough to understand what's going on. It's not old enough to understand why everyone is covering their mouths with their hands and failing to hold back tears when you walk into the room, or old enough to understand why people begin to outright sob when you start talking about what you want to be when you grow up. Once it was a doctor, before that it was a fairy princess, but right now it's a policewoman.

And of course all the children have heard about t

"Advertisements" by =Chlowo

_{A quaint and somewhat creepy story that}

_{really plays with the reader's mind as}

_{to what's going on in the plot until the ending.}

_{Suggested by: =Vigilo}

_{Featured by: =SilverInkblot}

Strings Natalia was, blatantly, a pianist. It was impossible for her to have been anything else. She had this liquid grace about her that whispered sonatas and nocturnes and moody Beethoven. She'd sit at the piano in the college music room, rocking slowly back and forth and making a waltz rumble deep within its wooden body. Her fingers were long but her nails were always cut short so they wouldn't click against the keys, and her hair, long and smooth, was always pulled back into a big, soft braid.

"Daddy wanted me to be a concert pianist since the day I was born," she'd say in that gentle Eastern European accent of hers. I believed her. She could pl

"Strings" by *disrhythmic

_{From the Suggester: "Strings is a perfect}

_{vignette - short, reflective, and engaging."}

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*disrhythmic Feb 13, 2012

Oh, gosh, thanks so much!

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=saevusWinds Feb 13, 2012 Student General Artist

Yay! "A Dream in the Desert" got in!!!

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=saevusWinds Feb 13, 2012 Student General Artist

I recommended it!

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~monstroooo Feb 13, 2012

Yay *disrhythmic!

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=Vigilo Feb 13, 2012 Writer

It's an honour to be among the other writers up here, thank you!

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I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.

Yeats.

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