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wanderlight!
Apr. 14th, 2009 02:14 pmglass_icarusFor 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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?
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
***
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?
