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Electric Islands [i posted this to general but decided to post it to the stream]

Electric Islands You don’t know it, but you glitter against the night like a handful of fever. When stars look up into the blackness, they see supernovas exploding into arms and legs, hair like unraveled angel. Bodies in space. You glide silently past each other and never, ever touch except for brief, shuddering eclipses. The stars look up and see tongues of flame…. ………..eclipse me… ………..shadow me until there is only ………..a ring of fire left, ………..until all that is left of us ………..is a bright open mouth ………..that’s shocked and wanting… and think that this is love. we, far above them, know better. they do not watch us for long. They know our fused light is too fierce for their eyes- it could blind them. they look away and wonder. the sound of our desperate collision echoes down, blurred and aching. One day, it will drive  their sight upward and nail it to the place in the sky where we kiss violently and they will watch us, two supernovas, two suns, two electric islands, tear a hole in the heavens and slip through. we will ignite their sight and burn it out. The day the sky goes dark, you will know what happened.
— Diatom Shells, Aug 29, 2009

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lyz

16 years 9 months ago

Great

Expressive,colorful and wild. A lot of thought went into these words. From Lyz.