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Here are 8 incredible Lit pieces culled from things
that I've favorited over the last week.

Please give them a look, and follow the fantastic
deviants responsible for them:

RedshiftIt is the gathering umber of a tree,  
a glade, a shelf
toppling
with anecdotes
strewn into a quarrel;
a globe
pulled from its rotation,
pottery, and gifts gone
back to their dry and broken road;
      *
it is the wall waiting for its shadows  --  
its sun
for the partitions that pace its parting  --  
the trellis, and overhang in the distance
now ebbing  
frame by frame
as the landscape
is leveled from the face  
to the bare, empty space
that is still the place where you reside
in orbit of last year's cracks,
last year's debris  --  
the same universe.   borderlinelove, 
you need to understand:
i have an addict's empty heart
i am porus, 
poured over
a glass of wine
spilt across the tabletop
and dried to a stain
i am chronically empty
with a sieve of a soul
love passes through me
but never sticks
so many nights ago,
i begged you:
mediate my moderation
because i have none
my glass is empty or full
i haven't seen a single shade of grey 
since the moment i opened my eyes
my world is either
a blinding aura
or a moonless night

my vision 
is chronically skewed, tilted
the scales
never balance
quite right
the waters never settle
my body knows no homeostasis:
it is in constant battle,
unrest
my mind
is in a incessant state
of disquiet: 
cacophony, clamor
there is a bar fight 
between my head and heart
—my body is caught between
by Moonbeams            by AlloenDreams

dynasty 1. good morning
teta brings out coffee 
and we're silent 
the neighbor beats his wife 
and we're still silent 
i'm not a pit-stop 
though i've had hands
wrap around my throat 
and threaten to stifle
it still gets me so anxious
i feel like i'm covered 
head to toe
in paper-cuts, 
little pink slivers 
and everything i touch burns 
against my raw skin
and each cheek i have to kiss goodbye
feels like a blister
but this
screaming woman
in the distance 
reminds me that 
i'm lucky
i'm lucky because
i got away
2. good night
teta says
she will find me a man -
a good man
"he'll take care of you,"
they all tell me
not understanding 
i can take care of myself 
but i don't say that
instead i laugh
with wine-stained lips
and rose flushed cheeks
i let it roll off my back
and stare up at
the mediterranean sky
as it turns
every possible hue
and inevitably dims   acid-washedspiderweb hands 
stick to me and
we are in the van 
windows fogging up 
    your sister has
    heroin needles
    scattered around
    the floorboards
the sun spills
it's way onto my
bare chest and
i wonder why
being in love
feels so
    empty
we're in bedrooms
that aren't ours
with paintings
of jesus
on the walls
    you bruise my
    hipbones and call
    it art
    your watercolor
    daydream
when we break up
you paint your hair
the shade of the sky
and draw me with (t)horns
raised up on
the wooden cross
my limbs writhing
    not ready
    not ready
    not ready
    to bleed
stuck with your
hard wood
jammed into
my spine
ohohohohoh--
    baby
when i told you
i wanted you
to bind my wrists
with rope
    i expected you
 

from the mouths of ghostsi want you to jump into my bones
two fingers prodding at my lips
rugged
drag the beating heart back up my neck
& pull it out my mouth
writhing on the floor
cradle me
my handsome overseer
nibbles on my ear
a grazing tongue
becomes a snake and
slithers down my throat
i want you to take up my mouth
'til i can't breathe
ruin me
my aphrodisiac fruit
a finger groping at my breast
a dribble of emotion from
the serpent in my teeth
bite my lips until they bleed
i want you to wrap your hands around
my neck
the way we wrap a belt around a waist
and pull it tight
whisper to me that i taste of
salt and longing
let it linger in your mouth
and trickle down to live
within your bones
two fingers prodding at my lips
hook me like a fish
reach between my ribs
& leave with one last kiss
do not forget
i turn to dust when touched   <da:thumb id="789248394"/>
by featherquills               by Wavvvez 

ashy.⧸
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     maybe you know something
               that i don't,
                     but you like it like that
               & the way it holds
                                     as frozen clouds burned into the t.v.
                                       & cobwebs undid themselves
                                             <from eye-corners>,
                           you ate my eyelashes &
        &   retrograde armageddonwith machines like us, who needs enemies
staring back from the gossamer abyss
of stars, wide-eyed
and was it gamesmanship that won the war?
this one that we’ve fought with ourselves, in these ruins
we’ve built from what remains of rogue waves
as they fade uncorrected
into the maw of iniquitous kismet
as base ten brains breed their first/hexadecimal dreams
of a brighter binary existence
by lithium-cocoon         by thesquareroot 

I'm always on the lookout for new words to enjoy,
so feel free to note me anything you think I might like.
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Moonbeams
Thank you so much for the inclusion!  I love these features.