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Daily Lit Deviations for May 20^th, 2012

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Poetry

_{Featured by: betwixtthepages}
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"Damp Knees" by rlkirkland

<sub>This beautiful digital haiga brings to mind long
picnics in the park, grass stains and mud smearing the
knees of your favorite jeans as wildlife sings around you.  
This piece proves that rlkirkland knows how to create
a strong image with a few well-chosen words.


Suggested by helice93
Featured by LiliWrites</sub>

On Writing a Northwest Place Poem by beeswingblue

_{The author used subversion of a genre to great
effect to critique the way people write about the
Northwest in this punchy, fantastically detailed piece.}

Prose

_{Featured by doodlerTM}
Mono.One morning a black pillar appeared in the center of town, within the boundaries of the park and right outside of the library.  It stood at least thirteen feet tall and was as wide as a mature oak.  They deduced it was made out of some kind of polished stone.  Some guessed it was obsidian; others argued it was too strong to be such a fragile stone.  It could have been granite, but when was the last time you saw black granite in that quantity, and in that shape?
"We should knock it down and drag it away!" someone shouted.
But they were too afraid to touch it.
"Why not just leave it here?" another suggested.
But they wondered what would happen if they didn't do anything at all.
Whoever put it there didn't do it alone.  They'd need a truck to transport the thing, and they'd need some way to get it off the flatbed and stand it up straight.  But why go to all of that trouble for a pillar of rock?  Or was it part of someth
Mono. by laurotica

<sub>A longer story, but definitely worth the read -
with its' rich language and strong characters, the
reader is in for a ride.


Featured by: SilverInkblot</sub>

locks of gale by KaitForest

_{A character study that beautifully demonstrates
how a single characteristic can define a person.}

Foreign Language

_{Featured by shebledgreenink}
Le FouAu creux de ses vieux yeux
Il n'y a plus de voeux
Sombre idiot qui se morfond
Comme l'ombre en son cercueil,
Dans la pénombre et dans le deuil
Son corps est jeune et son désespoir profond !
Regardez ces yeux qui ne regardent plus
Son corps qui brille
Et ses vieilles pupilles,
Voyez ces yeux qui ont trop vu.
Couché dans son dernier lit,
Le bois charnu lui entaille la chair
Couché comme un mort il sourit,
Il repense à sa joie de naguère...
Le Fou by Manga-no-sekai

_{The title means "the madman," and the poem
abounds with wordplay; it sounds like a madman's
speech, in a good way.}






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