Meet me at the garden of forking paths. One hundred years of solitude will become fairy tale, if your face is at the beginning of my ever after.
I am the girl in the flammable
skirt and a hat full of sky. If your hands crave the feel of my hips and your
lips dream of my tongue, tell me about it. Say you are not afraid of mouths
born with teeth. Show you can survive our kind of cruelty.
If you do it for me (just the way I like it), I shall wear midnight for you.
If you do it for me (just
the way I want it), I shall turn Time Lord for you—let you take my hearts and
other body parts, to dream and feel all over the multiverse.
the wee notes…
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for Poets and Storytellers United--Friday Writings #82: Favorite Books. The
prompt invites us to write poetry or prose which includes the complete title of
one of our favorite books. I have too many favorite books, so I might’ve chosen
more than one *cough*: The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge
Luis Borges, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, Ever
After by Wendy Loggia, The Girl in
the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender, A
Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett, Born
with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew, Our Kind
of Cruelty by Araminta Hall, Kiss Me
First by Lottie Moggach, I Shall Wear
Midnight by Terry Pratchett, and Hearts
&
Other Body Parts by Ira Bloom.
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if the glorious nerdiness is not strong with you, and you’ve yet to delight
in the Doctor Who TV show, know Time Lords have two hearts.
Hard to resist a come-on like that!
ReplyDeleteWow!!!
ReplyDelete100 Years is a great favourite of mine too, as are all things Terry Pratchett. And of course The Doctor, both classic and new.
That is a great list of book recommendations - very clever how you incorporated the titles.
ReplyDeleteI can see you dancing around a stack of books, grinning and thinking of all the words within, and what fabulous poetry and stories you can make of such.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely the way you turned all the titles into beginnings of a fabulous mysterious tale that could be its own story.
ReplyDeleteOh My! This is a most provocative piece, my Dear. Chills and a few other emotions running thru me. What a gift!
ReplyDeleteHAHAHa.....who in a millenia of multiverses would ever expect you to settle for just one book title....sent many tinglings through my soul with that collection of lusciousness cws XXX
ReplyDeleteThis is fabulous, and the list too . What a well crafted piece
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful piece I enjoyed that and loved 'to dream and feel all over the multiverse'
ReplyDeleteMagaly, I like your "kind of cruelty." Your prompt idea was good too. Mine was one I had laying around and I decided to post it to see how it flies. Plus I was short on time. I wasn't disappointed.
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... like how you've done the book recommendations :)
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
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ReplyDeleteThat's just beautiful! The titles of your favorites are make such wonderful poetry lines.
ReplyDeleteGreat selection of books.
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