~ Fiona
Thursday, June 18, 2015
"Hands" - a photography series
A photography series Rose and I worked on tonight. Basically, just me acting dramatic in a closet. and wishing I was Georgia O'Keefe posing for Stieglitz.
~ Fiona
~ Fiona
Thursday, June 11, 2015
You Can't Ask Why
A short story I just wrote at midnight... It's a bit odd, but when the muse strikes, I have to obey.
~ Fiona
You Can’t Ask Why
~ a short story
She sat up in bed and looked outside.
The window was clean and the night sky thick
With darkness and rain
“What are you doing there?”
“I’ve come for you.”
She looked at him with a frown.
“Why?”
“You can’t ask why.”
“But”-
“You can’t ask why.”
He held out his hand.
“What is that?”
“Moondust.”
“Where did you get it from?”
“Where do you think, stupid?” He reached for her. “Come with
me, I’ll take you there.”
“No!”
“Come on!’
“No!”
“Fine then. I’ll wait outside here until you come.”
Night waned and waxed
And time melted into eternities.
She inched closer and closer to the moondust.
And finally she did it.
He smiled at her hand laid upon his.
“Come with me.”
“Why?”
“You can’t ask why.”
She took his hand and he yanked her out of her bed.
Out of her window
Out of her world.
He took her to a tree
Where every leaf was a question
She never even asked.
He plucked them one by one
And grinned
As he chewed them between his
Shining teeth.
She lowered to the ground
And held her heart.
“What are you doing?”
“Answering you.”
“You’re eating away my questions.”
“They were never asked.”
She stared as he ate the last one.
“Why didn’t you ever ask, my love?”
“There was no one to answer.”
“I’m here.”
He took her hand again and led her to a cave
Dark and pregnant with nightmares.
He flicked a flame
From his fingertips
And ignited the place
With candelabras all over the walls,
Ceiling and heart.
They were tall giant candles
Melting wax globs
The size of tires.
“What are you doing?”
“Melting these fears. They’re of no use in the darkness.
This place needs light – not your nightmares.”
The candle wax melted to the floor
Like a river which they floated along
Till they came to a stairway
“What is this?”
“I’m not sure. But I think we should climb it.”
“It looks like gold.”
“No, it’s sunlight.”
“Oh.”
“Come with me.”
They climbed,
And they climbed
To the far and vast moon.
And as they climbed,
Their hands grew together,
Their hips melted as one,
Their lips met and-
“What is this?”
“It is a kiss.”
“Why are we doing this?”
“You can’t ask why.”
Night and day became twilight.
Water and dust
Became cement
And the lips pressed together
Moved like a dance
Of butterflies on the streams
Of the human soul.
She lost her breath
And her legs gave out,
The moon beneath her
Crumbled.
“What is happening?”
She clung to him as she looked down
To the black depths of ocean below.
“You’re falling.”
“Falling where?”
“In love.”
“In what?”
“Love.”
“But why?”
“You can’t ask why.”
“Can’t you fall with me?”
“No, my love. I already rose with you. And I am rising
still.”
“Don’t! Come down! Come with me.”
“I can’t. You have to fall first to rise.”
“Did you ever fall?”
“I have fallen in love a thousand times. And all those times
it was with you. You, my love, in thousands of forms, in thousands of women and
lives and worlds.”
“I don’t want to fall.”
“You have to.”
“Will I ever rise to see you?”
“Maybe. Or maybe not.
It depends what you take down with you.”
Her hand slipped from his
Yet she clung to the moon.
Tears streamed into the growing
Ocean below.
“You can’t let me fall.”
“I have to let you fall.”
“But why?”
“You can’t ask why.”
The moondust crumbled in her grasp.
And she fell,
Down,
Down,
Down,
Into the dark bottomless ocean
Of tears
And why.
She sat up in bed.
Wide awake
From the dream she couldn’t remember.
But she felt in her hand the fine edges of dust
Moondust in the crevices of her palm.
She opened her hand to let the moonlight shine
All the answers,
All the fears,
And all the reasons
Why.
And she rose.
She rose again and again to soulless heights
Always higher each time
Only to fall in love again.
Monday, June 1, 2015
Late Night Poetry: The Little Redhead Girl Is All Alone
The Little Redhead Girl is All Alone
A poem I wrote late in the night, inspired by my pink lamp Penelope. :)
~ Fiona
The little redhead girl is all alone.
Far in the night.
Deep in the night.
And the blue room is tiny.
The pink old lamp in the corner
Blinks
And sputters
And turns on.
“Who paints the sky blue?”
“How many tears does it take to drown?”
“What does a cloud feel like?”
“When does forever end?”
“Does the rose have a soul?”
“Do you think I am really me?”
“Can you answer me?”
The pink old lamp in the corner
Blinks
And sputters
And goes out.
Birthdays fly by
And forever ends
And the little redhead girl finds
The soul of the rose.
Now the blue room is vast
And empty
All alone
And the old lamp in the corner
Blinks
And sputters
And answers.
Far in the night.
Deep in the night.
And the blue room is tiny.
The pink old lamp in the corner
Blinks
And sputters
And turns on.
“Who paints the sky blue?”
“How many tears does it take to drown?”
“What does a cloud feel like?”
“When does forever end?”
“Does the rose have a soul?”
“Do you think I am really me?”
“Can you answer me?”
The pink old lamp in the corner
Blinks
And sputters
And goes out.
Birthdays fly by
And forever ends
And the little redhead girl finds
The soul of the rose.
Now the blue room is vast
And empty
All alone
And the old lamp in the corner
Blinks
And sputters
And answers.
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