[mispaddington]

thought about famiresu 🫥🫥🫥🫥

[lovestereo]

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[disco-archetypes]

VISUAL CALCULUS - Ruination has come. The broken arches betray the once grand history of this building. It towered over the harbour, until *it* happened.

YOU - Form a guess about what happened.

VISUAL CALCULUS - A great force from the northeast fired into the city. Heavy artillery shelled the coastline, fired from the water -- a straight shot into Revachol.

VISUAL CALCULUS - The tenement acted as a defensive wall against the worst of the shelling. Until it was destroyed, and they had a direct firing line.

YOU - Take in the ocean.

VISUAL CALCULUS - The waves of the Martinaise inlet roll over the fallen remains of the building. The dark waters obscure the better part of the remains.

ENDURANCE - This is where the damage came from. From somewhere in the inlet. The cannons.

LOGIC - What didn't fall into the ocean was used as scrap; what wasn't used as scrap was thrown into the ocean.

YOU - Look at the ruins in the water.

VISUAL CALCULUS - Those arches acted as support for something greater than what you see now.

VISUAL CALCULUS - Only three storeys stand where nine to twelve once did. Restoration has failed. What the shelling took out was never re-built.

SHIVERS - Underwater, iron helmets have sunk deep into the sand and the mud. Helmets of soldiers. And their fingerbones, too. And clavicles. Littering the ocean floor...

YOU - Who did this? This damage?

VISUAL CALCULUS - A fleet -- the combined armies of Occident and Graad, with Mesque volunteers. A five-nation army. Hundreds of vessels.

VISUAL CALCULUS - They massed airships further down, in the bay of Revachol. The artillery was so powerful, the ships not only required gyroscopic stabilization -- they were anchored into the ocean floor as well.

VISUAL CALCULUS - Many are still there to this day. If you squint, you can just barely see the shadow on the water, far in the northeast. Cannons still ready to placate Revachol.

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Coalition Warship Archer can shoot fifty shells a minute, on twenty co-aligned arches. They will reach the city in 58 seconds.

[peaceinthestorm]

Carl Moll (1861-1945, Austrian) ~ Dämmerung, 1902

[Source: leopoldmuseum.org]

[disco-archetypes]

SHIVERS - I AM A FRAGMENT OF THE WORLD SPIRIT, THE GENIUS LOCI OF REVACHOL.

SHIVERS - MY HEART IS THE WIND CORRIDOR. THE BOTTOM OF MY AIR IS RED. I HAVE A HUNDRED THOUSAND LUMINOUS ARMS.

SHIVERS - COME MORNING, I CARRY INDUSTRIAL DUST AND LET IT SETTLE ON TREE LEAVES. I SHAKE THE DUST FROM THOSE LEAVES AND ONTO YOUR COAT.

SHIVERS - I'VE SEEN YOU, I'VE SEEN YOU! I'VE SEEN YOU WITH HER -- AND I'VE SEEN YOU WITHOUT HER. I'VE SEEN YOU ON THE CRESCENT OF THE HILL.

[seekingstars]

Dictee - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

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[polari]

As I Grew Older by Langston Hughes

It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun,— My dream.

And then the wall rose, Rose slowly, Slowly, Between me and my dream. Rose slowly, slowly, Dimming, Hiding, The light of my dream. Rose until it touched the sky,— The wall.

Shadow. I am black.

I lie down in the shadow. No longer the light of my dream before me, Above me. Only the thick wall. Only the shadow.

My hands! My dark hands! Break through the wall! Find my dream! Help me to shatter this darkness, To smash this night, To break this shadow Into a thousand lights of sun, Into a thousand whirling dreams Of sun!

[lovestereo]

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[havingapoemwithyou]

to paula in late spring by W.S. Merwin

[24ribbons]

Magnolia’s Lemon Spirit (2016)

Olga Kvasha

[havingapoemwithyou]

Against Empire by Jim Moore

[havingapoemwithyou]

To a stranger by Walt Whitman

[mispaddington]

remembered hong kyung in a distant place im not rewatching that </3

[apoemaday]

Evening

by Rainer Maria Rilke tr. Jessie Lamont

The bleak fields are asleep, My heart alone wakes; The evening in the harbour Down his red sails takes.

Night, guardian of dreams, Now wanders through the land; The moon, a lily white, Blossoms within her hand.

[straycatj]

しごとやめろです

Stop your work💢

[apoemaday]

In Time of Silver Rain

by Langston Hughes

In time of silver rain The earth puts forth new life again, Green grasses grow And flowers lift their heads, And over all the plain The wonder spreads Of life, Of life, Of life!

In time of silver rain The butterflies Lift silken wings To catch a rainbow cry, And trees put forth New leaves to sing In joy beneath the sky As down the roadway Passing boys and girls Go singing, too, In time of silver rain When spring And life Are new.