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diff --git a/in-bed.html b/in-bed.html index 79c84a0..5129092 100644 --- a/in-bed.html +++ b/in-bed.html
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49</section> 49</section>
50<section id="iii" class="level2"> 50<section id="iii" class="level2">
51<h2>III</h2> 51<h2>III</h2>
52<p><span class="line">I woke screaming and you</span><span class="line">came to sit next to me. I felt</span><span class="line">my eyes were open too wide</span></p> 52<p><span class="line">I <a href="worse-looking-over.html">woke screaming</a> and you</span><span class="line">came to sit next to me. I felt</span><span class="line">my eyes were open too wide</span></p>
53<p><span class="line">that I could not shut them</span><span class="line">from the horror movie sitting</span><span class="line">on your lap in the easy chair</span></p> 53<p><span class="line">that I could not shut them</span><span class="line">from the horror movie sitting</span><span class="line">on your lap in the easy chair</span></p>
54<p><span class="line">in the dream the other dream</span><span class="line">in the living room under</span><span class="line">the tree. Why do I feel guilty?</span></p> 54<p><span class="line">in the dream the other dream</span><span class="line">in the living room under</span><span class="line">the tree. Why do I feel guilty?</span></p>
55</section> 55</section>
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
62<section id="v" class="level2"> 62<section id="v" class="level2">
63<h2>V</h2> 63<h2>V</h2>
64<p><span class="line">I sit up slowly creaking.</span><span class="line">I find myself alone buried</span><span class="line"><a href="the-sea_the-beach.html">in an ocean</a>. Far off</span></p> 64<p><span class="line">I sit up slowly creaking.</span><span class="line">I find myself alone buried</span><span class="line"><a href="the-sea_the-beach.html">in an ocean</a>. Far off</span></p>
65<p><span class="line"><a href="mountain.html">there is an eagle</a> flying</span><span class="line">toward me. She lands on</span><span class="line">my knee and lays an egg.</span></p> 65<p><span class="line"><a href="mountain.html">there is an eagle</a> flying</span><span class="line">toward me. She lands on</span><span class="line"><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/kvrune01.htm">my knee and lays an egg</a>.</span></p>
66<p><span class="line">I think <em>not this again</em></span><span class="line">something I’ve never</span><span class="line">thought in my life.</span></p> 66<p><span class="line">I think <em>not this again</em></span><span class="line">something I’ve never</span><span class="line">thought in my life.</span></p>
67</section> 67</section>
68<section id="vi" class="level2"> 68<section id="vi" class="level2">
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
73</section> 73</section>
74<section id="vii" class="level2"> 74<section id="vii" class="level2">
75<h2>VII</h2> 75<h2>VII</h2>
76<p><span class="line">[You run through me</span><span class="line">like rats]<a href="#I">rats</a> down an alley.</span><span class="line">You are in my <a href="plant.html">blood</a>.</span></p> 76<p><span class="line">You run through me</span><span class="line"><a href="#I">like rats</a> down an alley.</span><span class="line">You are in my <a href="plant.html">blood</a>.</span></p>
77<p><span class="line">You scared me once</span><span class="line">remember? Jumped out</span><span class="line">of the bathroom door.</span></p> 77<p><span class="line">You scared me once</span><span class="line">remember? Jumped out</span><span class="line">of the bathroom door.</span></p>
78<p><span class="line">I fell screaming onto</span><span class="line">the linoleum. Did you</span><span class="line">apologize? Did you need to?</span></p> 78<p><span class="line">I fell screaming onto</span><span class="line">the linoleum. Did you</span><span class="line">apologize? Did you need to?</span></p>
79</section> 79</section>
diff --git a/riptide_memory.html b/riptide_memory.html index 41b847a..e865c37 100644 --- a/riptide_memory.html +++ b/riptide_memory.html
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@
37<section class="content verse"> 37<section class="content verse">
38<p><span class="line">Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory.</span><span class="line">The air up here is thin, but the wind blows harder</span><span class="line">than anywhere else I know. It threatens to rip</span><span class="line">my body away, like <a href="angeltoabraham.html">an angel of death</a>, to the stars.</span></p> 38<p><span class="line">Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory.</span><span class="line">The air up here is thin, but the wind blows harder</span><span class="line">than anywhere else I know. It threatens to rip</span><span class="line">my body away, like <a href="angeltoabraham.html">an angel of death</a>, to the stars.</span></p>
39<p><span class="line">In Arizona, I thought I would forget the rain,</span><span class="line">forget its sound on a roof like a hard wind, forget</span><span class="line">its smell like a far away ocean. Luckily for me</span><span class="line">it rains here. Luckily, because I forget too easily.</span></p> 39<p><span class="line">In Arizona, I thought I would forget the rain,</span><span class="line">forget its sound on a roof like a hard wind, forget</span><span class="line">its smell like a far away ocean. Luckily for me</span><span class="line">it rains here. Luckily, because I forget too easily.</span></p>
40<p><span class="line">In a dream, <a href="father.html">my father is caught by a riptide</a> off-shore.</span><span class="line">He’s pulled far out, far enough that the shoreline’s</span><span class="line">a line in his <a href="ouroboros_memory.html">memory</a> on the horizon. I can see him</span><span class="line">swimming, hand over hand, pulling his small weight</span></p> 40<p><span class="line">In a dream, <a href="father.html">my father is caught by a riptide</a> off-shore.</span><span class="line">He’s pulled far out, far enough that the shoreline’s</span><span class="line">a dim line in his <a href="ouroboros_memory.html">memory</a> on the horizon. I can see him</span><span class="line">swimming, hand over hand, pulling his small weight</span></p>
41<p><span class="line">back to land. I see him as <a href="shipwright.html">another shipwreck</a> victim,</span><span class="line">coughing sand and seawater, beard woven with seaweed.</span><span class="line">I see him lying there a long time. I see all this</span><span class="line">as he tells me the story, years later, the riptide</span></p> 41<p><span class="line">back to land. I see him as <a href="shipwright.html">another shipwreck</a> victim,</span><span class="line">coughing sand and seawater, beard woven with seaweed.</span><span class="line">I see him lying there a long time. I see all this</span><span class="line">as he tells me the story, years later, the riptide</span></p>
42<p><span class="line">only a <a href="one-hundred-lines.html">ghost</a> in his memory, I only a child falling</span><span class="line">asleep. My mother’s making mayonnaise rolls</span><span class="line">in the kitchen, a recipe I’ll send for years later,</span><span class="line">in Arizona, in the monsoon season, when my thirst</span></p> 42<p><span class="line">only a <a href="one-hundred-lines.html">ghost</a> in his memory, I only a child falling</span><span class="line">asleep. My mother’s making mayonnaise rolls</span><span class="line">in the kitchen, a recipe I’ll send for years later,</span><span class="line">in Arizona, in the monsoon season, when my thirst</span></p>
43<p><span class="line">pulls me back home, my memory’s lonesome twinkle</span><span class="line">like <a href="finding-the-lion.html">stars above the mountains</a>. I’ll send for it</span><span class="line">and try to make them, but in the thin air they’ll</span><span class="line">crumble into dust like desert air, like a memory.</span></p> 43<p><span class="line">pulls me back home, my memory’s lonesome twinkle</span><span class="line">like <a href="finding-the-lion.html">stars above the mountains</a>. I’ll send for it</span><span class="line">and try to make them, but at this altitude they’ll</span><span class="line">crumble into dust like desert air, like a memory.</span></p>
44</section> 44</section>
45</article> 45</article>
46 46
diff --git a/text/in-bed.txt b/text/in-bed.txt index b7be002..dc3e270 100644 --- a/text/in-bed.txt +++ b/text/in-bed.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ project:
40 40
41## III 41## III
42 42
43| I woke screaming and you 43| I [woke screaming][] and you
44| came to sit next to me. I felt 44| came to sit next to me. I felt
45| my eyes were open too wide 45| my eyes were open too wide
46 46
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ project:
75 75
76| [there is an eagle][] flying 76| [there is an eagle][] flying
77| toward me. She lands on 77| toward me. She lands on
78| my knee and lays an egg. 78| [my knee and lays an egg][].
79 79
80| I think *not this again* 80| I think *not this again*
81| something I've never 81| something I've never
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ project:
98 98
99## VII 99## VII
100 100
101| [You run through me 101| You run through me
102| like rats][rats] down an alley. 102| [like rats][rats] down an alley.
103| You are in my [blood][]. 103| You are in my [blood][].
104 104
105| You scared me once 105| You scared me once
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ project:
142[I see my reflection is headless]: deathstrumpet.html 142[I see my reflection is headless]: deathstrumpet.html
143[and the moon grins down]: moon-drowning.html 143[and the moon grins down]: moon-drowning.html
144[rot only for us]: options.html 144[rot only for us]: options.html
145[woke screaming]: worse-looking-over.html
145[closed over me like an eyelid]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html 146[closed over me like an eyelid]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html
146[in an ocean]: the-sea_the-beach.html 147[in an ocean]: the-sea_the-beach.html
147[there is an eagle]: mountain.html 148[there is an eagle]: mountain.html
@@ -149,3 +150,4 @@ project:
149[rats]: #I 150[rats]: #I
150[blood]: plant.html 151[blood]: plant.html
151[red]: window.html 152[red]: window.html
153[my knee and lays an egg]: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/kvrune01.htm
diff --git a/text/riptide_memory.txt b/text/riptide_memory.txt index 177a586..9f5ebe0 100644 --- a/text/riptide_memory.txt +++ b/text/riptide_memory.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ project:
33 33
34| In a dream, [my father is caught by a riptide][] off-shore. 34| In a dream, [my father is caught by a riptide][] off-shore.
35| He's pulled far out, far enough that the shoreline's 35| He's pulled far out, far enough that the shoreline's
36| a line in his [memory][] on the horizon. I can see him 36| a dim line in his [memory][] on the horizon. I can see him
37| swimming, hand over hand, pulling his small weight 37| swimming, hand over hand, pulling his small weight
38 38
39| back to land. I see him as [another shipwreck][] victim, 39| back to land. I see him as [another shipwreck][] victim,
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ project:
48 48
49| pulls me back home, my memory's lonesome twinkle 49| pulls me back home, my memory's lonesome twinkle
50| like [stars above the mountains][]. I'll send for it 50| like [stars above the mountains][]. I'll send for it
51| and try to make them, but in the thin air they'll 51| and try to make them, but at this altitude they'll
52| crumble into dust like desert air, like a memory. 52| crumble into dust like desert air, like a memory.
53 53
54[an angel of death]: angeltoabraham.html 54[an angel of death]: angeltoabraham.html
diff --git a/text/the-night-we-met.txt b/text/the-night-we-met.txt index aa6d89c..16987bb 100644 --- a/text/the-night-we-met.txt +++ b/text/the-night-we-met.txt
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ project:
17| in the dark, remember? You told me time was 17| in the dark, remember? You told me time was
18 18
19| pregnant with all things. I should've said 19| pregnant with all things. I should've said
20| something, to draw you out from your place 20| something, to draw you out from your safety
21| in the dark. Remember, you told me time was 21| in the dark. Remember, you told me time was
22| only an illusion, [and memory was][] only 22| only an illusion, [and memory was][] only
23 23
24| something to draw. You, out from your place, 24| something to draw. You, out from your safety,
25| I out from mine, that night, I believed in you. 25| I out from mine, that night, I believed in you.
26| Only illusion and memory were one, lying 26| And illusion and memory were one, lying
27| [down on your couch][], through the night you drew 27| [down on your couch][], through the night you drew
28 28
29| me out from mine. That night, I believed in you 29| me out from mine. That night, I believed in you
diff --git a/the-night-we-met.html b/the-night-we-met.html index 4b89f30..dde8d7b 100644 --- a/the-night-we-met.html +++ b/the-night-we-met.html
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
36 36
37<section class="content verse"> 37<section class="content verse">
38<p><span class="line">My head is <a href="found-typewriter-poem.html">full of fire</a>, my tongue swollen,</span><span class="line">pregnant with all the things I should’ve said</span><span class="line">but didn’t. Last night, we met each other</span><span class="line">in the dark, remember? You told me time was</span></p> 38<p><span class="line">My head is <a href="found-typewriter-poem.html">full of fire</a>, my tongue swollen,</span><span class="line">pregnant with all the things I should’ve said</span><span class="line">but didn’t. Last night, we met each other</span><span class="line">in the dark, remember? You told me time was</span></p>
39<p><span class="line">pregnant with all things. I should’ve said</span><span class="line">something, to draw you out from your place</span><span class="line">in the dark. Remember, you told me time was</span><span class="line">only an illusion, <a href="riptide_memory.html">and memory was</a> only</span></p> 39<p><span class="line">pregnant with all things. I should’ve said</span><span class="line">something, to draw you out from your safety</span><span class="line">in the dark. Remember, you told me time was</span><span class="line">only an illusion, <a href="riptide_memory.html">and memory was</a> only</span></p>
40<p><span class="line">something to draw. You, out from your place,</span><span class="line">I out from mine, that night, I believed in you.</span><span class="line">Only illusion and memory were one, lying</span><span class="line"><a href="early.html">down on your couch</a>, through the night you drew</span></p> 40<p><span class="line">something to draw. You, out from your safety,</span><span class="line">I out from mine, that night, I believed in you.</span><span class="line">And illusion and memory were one, lying</span><span class="line"><a href="early.html">down on your couch</a>, through the night you drew</span></p>
41<p><span class="line">me out from mine. That night, I believed in you</span><span class="line">when you told me you loved me. I lay</span><span class="line">down on your couch. Through the night, you drew</span><span class="line">a picture of our <a href="one-hundred-lines.html">future together</a>.</span></p> 41<p><span class="line">me out from mine. That night, I believed in you</span><span class="line">when you told me you loved me. I lay</span><span class="line">down on your couch. Through the night, you drew</span><span class="line">a picture of our <a href="one-hundred-lines.html">future together</a>.</span></p>
42<p><span class="line">When you told me you loved me, I lied</span><span class="line"><a href="apollo11.html">in the dark</a>. Remember, you told me time was</span><span class="line"><a href="last-passenger.html">a picture of our future</a> together.</span><span class="line">My head is full of fire, <a href="plant.html">my tongue swollen</a>.</span></p> 42<p><span class="line">When you told me you loved me, I lied</span><span class="line"><a href="apollo11.html">in the dark</a>. Remember, you told me time was</span><span class="line"><a href="last-passenger.html">a picture of our future</a> together.</span><span class="line">My head is full of fire, <a href="plant.html">my tongue swollen</a>.</span></p>
43</section> 43</section>