If I can't jump, just push and shove

[sovay]

Disquieting dream of the night: a series of murders somewhere wintry and granite-cragged, children disappearing from the moors over the years just as if a hawk stooped down and took them, all those little bones shining up there in the dark. I knew in the dream it was Zeus, like the eagle with Ganymede, only without the cupbearing immortality. It didn't matter if I could tell where they were lying, snow on flat hipbones, bracken in their ribs, I couldn't promise there wouldn't be any more. Their deaths weren't even a goal. Just only in poetry does anyone turn into flowers or springs except by decomposition.

It's cold as autumn in this kitchen. I'm seriously considering putting on a sweater.

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[samhenderson.livejournal.com]

just as if a hawk stooped down and took them, all those little bones shining up there in the dark

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Whew.

November coming...

Nine

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The music, especially as sung by the Capital Children's Choir, is perfect.

A doubt bubbles to the surface: ravishment by the gods = simply destruction, not transcendence of any sort. The gods may be monsters.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

A beautifully cruel image. I'm shivering with it, and it's some days since I first saw it, meant to tell you how it struck me, and then didn't manage to log in.

I'm sorry for the disquieting dream it came wrapped in--it's not pleasant to wake with the memory of horror, however aesthetic the horror might be.