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skonen_blades ([personal profile] skonen_blades) wrote2008-05-25 09:35 pm
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Leash

His mind was a fraying rope.

He dug at any imagined issue like a wolf on the scent of a rabbit warren.
His rational mind was the spike for his mental leash, an anchor for circles that didn’t always have the strength to hold his insanity back.

Those moments, he’d run off deep, howling naked out of the spotlight into his inner night on adventures both as terrifying as they were hidden.
On the outside, his eyes would unfocus and we’d wait for him to return.

Each moment of rational behaviour from him was like a wedding ring found in a meat pie;
Unsettling, unexpected, and only indicative of a much greater problem.

He called himself my step father. I had my own names for him written in small scars all over my body. I screamed that name down the chasms in my childhood memories and got back echoes that threatened to deafen me. Patches of black ice over the worst of it.

In real life, I got away.

In my dreams, I am always caught.
Hands deep in the roots of my hair and a probing insistence at my back.

All nights are dark.

So I came north, where the sun never sets.

That’s where I found her.





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[identity profile] molasses.livejournal.com 2008-05-26 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
mmm. lots to chew on and love in this.

[identity profile] skonen-blades.livejournal.com 2008-05-26 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. It's a shoving together of a few ideas I had while on vacation. More to come.

[identity profile] molasses.livejournal.com 2008-05-26 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
when you are on vacation, or traveling of any sort I guess, do you keep notes/words/things writtien down to flesh out?
or is it like a big laundromat dryer in your head, all those ideas and pictures tumbling around?

[identity profile] skonen-blades.livejournal.com 2008-05-26 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, no, I write them down. I carry a notebook with me wherever I go. I feel naked without it. I can sometimes hook a mnemonic onto an idea and hold it in my head for a while but if I don't write it down, away it goes. My notebook is chock full of phrases that occur to me and germs of story ideas. I took it on vacation.

Although I think my head is a big laundromat dryer pretty much all the time.

the coyote is really a crazy clown

[identity profile] molasses.livejournal.com 2008-05-26 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
i write things down sometimes but my scribble means sdieosaspi soigfdss eetsi6
and i lost the meaning of mine own brilliance.

my head is more like a vast empty desert.
or something.

welcome home. sleep well.

When will he learn that he never can mow him down?

[identity profile] skonen-blades.livejournal.com 2008-05-26 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. I will.

Re: When will he learn that he never can mow him down?

[identity profile] molasses.livejournal.com 2008-05-26 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
heee!
my head is actually more like a ferris wheel.
sleep is for the weak!

[identity profile] deathboy.livejournal.com 2008-05-26 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
Write a book already, you fuck! :)

[identity profile] skonen-blades.livejournal.com 2008-05-26 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha. Thank you, sir. That's in the cards. Time, drive and confidence and at a premium these days. I'm on it.

[identity profile] deathboy.livejournal.com 2008-05-26 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
entirely understood ;) (as a creative with way too many projects and a perpetually demanding child ;))

Missing In Action Dry Cleaning

[identity profile] molasses.livejournal.com 2008-05-27 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
apologies for the off-topicness.
took this photo downtown thinking of you.
Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/55972220@N00/2525617563/)

happy monday

Re: Missing In Action Dry Cleaning

[identity profile] skonen-blades.livejournal.com 2008-05-27 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Ha ha. Funny.