https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-1753-week-of-nbsp-03-22-10 en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:40:39 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12370-where-trees-grow https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12370-where-trees-grow I. behind a tiny house stood a small grove of giant pines. they soared above her as she ran past them bare-foot, limbs flailing behind her - toes tunneling in the cool earth, running, always running to escape the giant that towered over her. II. in the kitchen he would rage at her with his fists, her adult frame crumpling beside the wall, ceramic wind-chimes shattering; I would fall on sapling knees, tiny limbs twisted in dread, watch as bruises unfurled like pine cones on her skin. III. it was his favorite and she had to look her best for him. the dress was tiered taffeta and velvet - a deep hunter green that whispered a forest of pines as she ran. IV. I stood underneath the boughs, still and cold, rooted to the earth, smearing fat, wet tears on the dress he tore during his ravage; tiny seven-year old hands weeping with sap. the same hands that, afterward, stroked her beaten face, still and cold. I had forgotten how beautiful she was. V. the house was vacant and he had been gone for many years, but mother and daughter would return to the grove, walk under the giant pines, shed tears like seeds and wonder where trees grow. ... more Jasmine Mann Jasmine's Poetry Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:05:57 GMT /section-72-jasmine-s-poetry#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12370 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12370 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12370 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12373-at-bewl-water https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12373-at-bewl-water I am in the garden of oast houses, late Spring and Spring late this year- a slate-grey day of slanting rain. I could do with drying-out like the hops they smoke-dried inside those conical evaporators coiling to the apex of a cowl. Kent is a sponge today. I squelch through pummeled mud, looking for soft hours in the hard rain- uncertain and alive again; like a man on the verge of sex, primed with wet anticipation, filled with the stir and flap of gusts. This is Bewl Water in the High Weald, and I am free for a day, glad for the grey vista of hope. I am a fisherman again, looping coils through fingering thrills, whipping lines in muscling air. Let rain slash the curtained sky, sheet the billowing wind, infiltrate my skin and bone - this old connection thrums the blood, shocks the split sinew when the sunk line volts the moment; slits a throbbing frantic wire pulsing from flashing bloated depths up calamitous nerve-endings. I live this dying struggle: each boil and churn ignites my torpor at the rushing centre of now.   ... more u668857 The Personal Space of U668857 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:58:38 GMT /section-449-the-personal-space-of-u668857#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12373 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12373 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12373 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12372-reasons-to-be-cheerful https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12372-reasons-to-be-cheerful Temptatio Atrum Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 13: Silenti etc Amor Verus 2009-2010 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:25:16 GMT /section-745-mosquitobytes-volume-13-silenti-etc-amor-verus-2009-2010#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12372 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12372 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12372 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12371-listening https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12371-listening Temptatio Atrum Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 13: Silenti etc Amor Verus 2009-2010 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:22:57 GMT /section-745-mosquitobytes-volume-13-silenti-etc-amor-verus-2009-2010#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12371 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12371 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12371 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12369-myoclonus https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12369-myoclonus Temptatio Atrum Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 13: Silenti etc Amor Verus 2009-2010 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:21:54 GMT /section-745-mosquitobytes-volume-13-silenti-etc-amor-verus-2009-2010#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12369 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12369 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12369 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12368-fallow https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12368-fallow Temptatio Atrum Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 13: Silenti etc Amor Verus 2009-2010 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:16:58 GMT /section-745-mosquitobytes-volume-13-silenti-etc-amor-verus-2009-2010#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12368 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12368 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12368