Posts Tagged ‘loss’

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Pet Helmets

November 10th, 2006
Transcriptorial: Genetically-engineered turtle shells / made the toughest helmets. / Each soldier raised his own pet / until the war began.
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Incognito

January 12th, 2007
Transcriptorial: moves and changes her name / every year; what you call her / says how she knows you
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D20

August 13th, 2007
Transcriptorial: so he made a pact: / he'd roll once per night and the first 1 / meant he would forget her
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Extremities

December 12th, 2007
Transcriptorial: They always leave me / for someone safer.
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Strings Attached

January 7th, 2008
Transcriptorial: She tied her cell phone to the string / around her roses and threw them in the water.
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A Frog Waving

February 4th, 2008
Transcriptorial: In those final days we learned / how to warn our friends / but not how to save them.
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Used to Be

February 15th, 2008
Transcriptorial: She tried to scent and hue the air / outlines of her fallen petals.
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Recycling

April 16th, 2008
Transcriptorial: Some days I almost remember / the machines I come from, melted together / waiting for new life.
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Multicandies

June 25th, 2008
Transcriptorial: Lick the corner for boysenberry. / For vanilla, chip at this edge. Or just crunch it / all at once. It will paralyze your tongue, / yes, but such a taste to end on.

Lovesick? Lovelorn?

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

There is a new section at Secret Vespers, called Lovesick. It is devoted to the passionate moments and affairs you are doomed to lose forever, to the desires you can barely name. It is devoted to the crushing realization that there is nothing you can fix, that there is no way to get that feeling back, that there is a world of dreams never to come true. And that they are all beautiful.

Lovesick is a series of confessions to the Internet. Each one is posted live. Each one attempts to capture the loss or impossible fantasy of a lovesick, sleep-deprived character.