Deliquesce

Hey all, my poem "Deliquesce" was posted today at the new group creative blog, qarrtsiluni*. There's some great writing and art published on the site, so I'm quite honored to be included. Go check out the creative work there - and if (or more likely, when!) you get inspired by it, submit something of your own. This month's theme is "Change and Continuity."

*The word qarrtsiluni comes from an Alaskan Inuit word for sitting together in the darkness, waiting for something to burst.

Update: Also go see the drawing by Anonymous inspired by "Deliquesce"!

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Además: I decided that since this post and the poem posted at qarrtsiluni have gone into the archives, I may as well cut and paste a copy of the poem in here for my own archives:

Deliquesce

In time I will soften

like old mushrooms –

deliquesce

cell by cell

plexus defenseless

bulwarks dissolved

into moat. I will

not will, won’t

quarrel with the moon

nor damn the tides.

I’ll acquiesce –

unmasked essence

afloat and rudderless.

Let the meltoff decide

on whose sands I maroon

or drift on alone

and after, evanesce.

Author's note: deliquesce was the Word of the Day on September 20, 2005.

In time I will soften

like old mushrooms –

deliquesce

cell by cell

plexus defenseless

bulwarks dissolved

into moat. I will

not will, won’t

quarrel with the moon

nor damn the tides.

I’ll acquiesce –

unmasked essence

afloat and rudderless.

Let the meltoff decide

on whose sands I maroon

or drift on alone

and after, evanesce.

Author's note: deliquesce was the Word of the Day on September 20, 2005.

Comments

[moose]

That really is a nicely written poem, Leslee!

[P.]

I came upon "deliquesce," a word I love myself, as I explored qarrtsiluni, and just wanted to say the poem delighted me. Thanks!

[leslee]

Thanks again, Moose! And thanks, P - glad you enjoyed it!