

the painter and the modelone - the modelthe painter and the model
i was not suited for the darker life. i was not doomed to die on the streets, as desperate and desolate as i began. so i came to you in the evening hoping the darkness would hide my clothes. but when you threw open the door i raised my shoulders and stepped into the light.
two - the painter
your hand poses neatly an oracle to the stars a still celestial dance lace glove giving you that extra layer of flawless beauty, rigid as the faces of your porcelain dolls if god - or i - had


messenger pigeonsyou delivered a letter on the wings of the last messenger bird so that i could never respond. i tied my reply to its trembling leg but my whisper of comfort died on the wind before the pigeon ever took off.messenger pigeons
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a tap on the window and a hush of tattered paper delivered the cry for help long after you died. she had gotten lost on the way home spun through cities and chased atop mountain ranges before falling, spent, at my feet.


geometryplot the truth on a graph of freckles or between the lines of a ribcage where it can be traced and easily readgeometry
plot the truth along the nightly path of a star or the migration of birds where it can be followed only by instinct
plot the truth according to the sketches of a pencil or the delicate dance of a brush where it can be discovered like the footprints of mice
lies, however must be torn and scattered keelhauled along concrete walls and sent to the four corners of a h


hemlocksyou opened a fist and tossed numberless sequins far above the hemlocks candlestick fingers tearing fruit from the branches of dead trees with harrowing snaps as they fell at your feet.hemlocks
you knitted scarves out of pine needles and turned nails into curtains to shade your delicate eyes. you hated to leave until the sun went down.
looping a finger into the knot of your tie i dragged you out to watch pigeons float across the sky.
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*is now watching* x3
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