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between sins
August 6, 2011
between sins
I am
the white
skeleton of a home
before the walls
are erected; while I'm
waiting I
kiss translucent and
weightless
as plastic wrap;
the pillow is
under my head
before between
my legs; between sins I am
zero breath;
not even the blue
of the horizon, but
whatever color nothing
is
at midnight; I am
between sins a star,
combing waves for their
single sound;
between sins
I am
music decomposing
to the form of purity, a
point
.
© Brianna D., Everson, WA
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This article has 9 comments.
claudiathewho SILVER said...
on Aug. 13 2011 at 3:54 pm
Haha, yep, I commented on one of your stories. :)
Blue4indigo PLATINUM said...
on Aug. 13 2011 at 3:16 pm
poor you! ps. are you done procrastinating?:) sorry, don't mean to pester you...
claudiathewho SILVER said...
on Aug. 13 2011 at 2:00 pm
I once submitted a poem with a lot of complicated spacing. The formatting got messed up so much that no one would've been able to understand it, so I took it off the site. It was horrendous, haha.
Blue4indigo PLATINUM said...
on Aug. 13 2011 at 1:02 pm
Haha! Good idea. Luckily, the worst that I suffered was a whole blob of words instead of a real story with paragraphs. MUCH worse when this happens with poems.
claudiathewho SILVER said...
on Aug. 13 2011 at 12:28 pm
It really is! I guess I should send my specially formatted poems in by snail mail, so the editors can see what the poem is supposed to look like.
Blue4indigo PLATINUM said...
on Aug. 13 2011 at 12:17 pm
Okay :) Isn't it such a nuisance when TeenInk messes up formatting?
claudiathewho SILVER said...
on Aug. 13 2011 at 10:52 am
Thank you! Originally the poem had line spacing in it, but Teen Ink made everything left margin. I'll definitely read some of your work when I get the chance. (Which actually means that I'll read it when I stop procrastinating on reading it.)
Blue4indigo PLATINUM said...
on Aug. 13 2011 at 9:50 am
Good job, your poem was unique and ambiguous. There were some lines that were simply golden:) A litttle choppy, though. Can you please read some of my work, rate and comment? I'd appreciate it. (Esp. the two, or three poems, if the third one is online already)
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