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"Hope is a place,"
He said.
"Long-lost in the space
between stars and the skyline
Of cities,
so shadow-scarred and tarred
by trail-stretched wire
wound tight toward the horizon
That you can't even imagine
what love
we have lost
along the highway."
"Headlights
wax and wane a wash
against my windscreen,"
He said.
"They're waves
upon which I can watch
the patterns
of pressure-tides rolling on
as rush-hour reels:
broken wheels wrenched in a
stop-motion revenance
in red."
"We'll choke
cold
in this caldera,"
He said.
"Caught supine
beneath the saturnine
street-light,
and the fireflies
Cast ablaze
amidst the wreckage:
Sirens
will not save me tonight."
He said.
"Long-lost in the space
between stars and the skyline
Of cities,
so shadow-scarred and tarred
by trail-stretched wire
wound tight toward the horizon
That you can't even imagine
what love
we have lost
along the highway."
"Headlights
wax and wane a wash
against my windscreen,"
He said.
"They're waves
upon which I can watch
the patterns
of pressure-tides rolling on
as rush-hour reels:
broken wheels wrenched in a
stop-motion revenance
in red."
"We'll choke
cold
in this caldera,"
He said.
"Caught supine
beneath the saturnine
street-light,
and the fireflies
Cast ablaze
amidst the wreckage:
Sirens
will not save me tonight."
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Updated: 10/01/2010 @ 09:29
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Something a little different; at least in terms of presentation if not general style and subject matter.
This one was tricky to get to a point where I was reasonably content with it. The line-breaks, for example, have been altered extensively: to the point where I can barely tell the difference any more when I look at the pile of different versions I have cached in Notepad files. One version in particular doesn't even have line-breaks as the original intent was to present this as prose, of sorts.
One possible change that I couldn't quite decide upon is the presentation of the spoken segments: I'm starting to think that swapping the quotation marks for italic font would work better. Thoughts?
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The first stanza caught me and the rest was divine