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fall asleep with me tonight.If I wrote you a lullaby with verses of moonlit, fogged breath and a chorus of heartbeats- would you fall asleep with our melody in your palms?

I lie awake at night and watch traffic lights outside my window shout RED into the peace quiet and occasional hazy rev of traffic. I lie awake and shiver through layers and wish to silent stars it wasn’t winter, wish the nighttime cool wouldn’t paint quite so many goose bumps on my skin and make my eyelids so cold. I lie awake at night and night-dream without sleep- about you and all your eyelashes and beautiful wordings.

I like the way your collarbone lies horizontally beneath your neck,
pretty boys break hearts.sometimes I think I’m just a mess of badly drawn lines. I’m just scrawled veins beneath paper rough skin, I wear poorly sketched scars on my thighs [skin deep red pen lines] and even my smile is lop-sided- but he never seemed to notice.

my skin [spread like thick icing over my skeleton] is a monotonous pattern of pores, a stretch of the world the sun never kissed. I can’t see the beauty in multitudes of freckles and chipped fingernails- but he does.

‘why do you love me?’

‘you make me happy.’

I never could figure out just how. was it my illegible love notes, or the tiny hearts I drew into his bare back wi

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~CreameCaramele Jul 22, 2010
=)
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~Sereniance Jul 19, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Nice
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~AbeeyKat Jul 11, 2010
Beautiful, belongs in a magazine :D
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~irgenharas Jul 7, 2010
Is this Shanay? My god, how DO you source your models? I tell you what Nirrimi, you never cease to amaze me. If I wasn't so inspired, Id be jealous.
XOX
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~ReligiousInk May 12, 2010   Photographer
Holy molyyyy I have this issue and nearly fell off my chair when i discovered you photographed this. Love love love :)
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*femketje May 6, 2010  Professional Photographer
gorgeous
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~HelgaLevich May 4, 2010
colors *_*
they are amazing! like it very much!
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~Geo-Devin Mar 16, 2010
Exquisite depth of field, my dear nirrimi!
As if it is the frame of the picture.
Needless to say that I love your viewpoints.
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!Rockhampton Mar 14, 2010
Fabulous!
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!BellalleB Mar 5, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
featured in the news: [link]

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