oct2009.

minnows into sharks and whales

( she pressed her ear close to the sound of the english chamber orchestra )

love, cassie.

(surprise! it used to be original fic. edits ahead.)

2008.

a wreckage refashioned

( who knows why you jumped off that bridge )

love, cassie.

(throwback, throwback to bad poetry. i was a pretty insecure kid at 13, too, apparently.)

2005.

truth.

( a few words )

love, cassie.

jan11, 2009.

watching for lions

( after classes on an iron bridge )

love, cassie.

(last revision for now. mostly edited according todual_avi's attempt at brutality. :]

alas, not quite an original story, but close enough to be on this journal rather than the other. it's my secret santa submission at ochiba.net, for OQM. i have interpreted OQM's characters [they are here and here]. lovely, aren't they? 

i have obviously taken liberties, and it's a loose art-to-words interpretation. i've adopted a soberer tone, for one, than the artwork.

on another note - i've also been a little enamoured with elephants lately, anyway, because of rachael yamagata's elephants. also, hemingway's hills like white elephants has appeared in the comments more than once, though i wasn't thinking of hills at all while i was writing this. and of course, i am no hemingway. :]) 

dec21, 2008.

his bride and her elephant (or, that is that)


( Tonight, there is a white elephant on the plain, you're sure of it. )


love, cassie.

(last year, i sent off a poetry collection, including "the secret wish". one poem was entitled something like "lanterns". last week i revisited the theme of saving-some-light-for-a-darker-world and the lantern symbol for my djing/creative workshop women reborn. and this resulted. somewhat meant to be read aloud, i must admit to sacrificing... something for the sake of better sort-of meter and for the little bit of rhyming. particular use of these words: abstract, luster (lusterless), gravity, stark, alien, mystify, vital, inelastic.)

nov19, 2008.

the necessity of lanterns, reconsidered

( i believe that one day we'll need lanterns )

love, cassie.

(60 seconds, "four-line funny death poetry." challenge of sorts from angela. it only reveals i'm an idiot.)

jun2, 2008.

fly?

( funny, you always wanted )

love, cassie.

jan13, 2008. 

the secret wish

( this cold city )

love, cassie.