happy birthday, wanderlight!

[glass_icarus]

For you, because I felt it was appropriate to your post of bibliophilia the other day:

An Afternoon in the Stacks

Closing the book, I find I have left my head
inside. It is dark in here, but the chapters open
their beautiful spaces and give a rustling sound,
words adjusting themselves to their meaning.
Long passages open at successive pages. An echo,
continuous from the title onward, hums
behind me. From in here, the world looms,
a jungle redeemed by these linked sentences
carved out when an author traveled and a reader
kept the way open. When this book ends
I will pull it inside-out like a sock
and throw it back in the library. But the rumor
of it will haunt all that follows in my life.
A candleflame in Tibet leans when I move.

-- Mary Oliver

You are free to prompt away, as always! &hearts

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In other news, I've just written several hundred words for a Morgana/Gwen merlin_ficathon prompt! (It's turning out to be more Morgana-centric, though.) This is new and exciting territory; would anyone like to beta-read when it's finished?

Comments

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

This. This is a gorgeous poem, and it's just perfect. I feel honoured to be associated with it. :) And definitely must look for more Mary Oliver.

Thank you so much! ♥

No rush or anything, because I know lots of ficathons are going on, but hmm, hmm. There hasn't been much R/S fic around lately, and I still haven't finished Merlin (eep), so if you have any more little R/S snippets floating around in your head, I would love one of those!

Also, I can beta! Like I said, my Merlin-watching is going very slowly, so I could read only for flow, wording, etc. rather than characterisation, but if that's okay send it over.

[glass-icarus.livejournal.com]

ah, R/S. *g* the universe is conspiring to prod me back into writing them, i swear! i will have to think more about this. :)

yay! will send it over when i finish poking at it. it isn't episode-based, so it shouldn't be particularly spoilery or affect your watching all that much. &hearts

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Oh, gorgeous poem! I love that.

[such_heights]

Oh, that is really lovely. :)

I am very excited about that upcoming fic! If you'd like a second beta I'd be more than happy to oblige.

[glass-icarus.livejournal.com]

that would be much appreciated, thank you! (i am currently attempting to fix my punctuation, which seems to have run away from me today. FAIL! will send once my commas no longer overrun my sentences, or at least as few of them as i can manage.)