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picture death.I couldn’t bring myself to bury her.

I couldn’t bring myself to empty the ground of dirt and of earthworms and of the spindly weed roots, and fill in the ochre gap with her body. Her coffee-cream fur held her tiny skeleton from falling out when they hit her. I try not to think of miniature beat-less hearts and mute lungs. I never saw her dead, but I can imagine.

They found her on the median strip. Breathless and still by the endless whoosh of traffic.

In my mind I see Mum’s face; I see her heart throbbing at her feet and her cradling the dog, like a precious baby to her chest. I see the love flowing down her withered cheeks

why didn't you say goodbye?Love wasn’t in the air the night you unbuttoned my shirt and kissed my skin. No, love definitely wasn’t in the air the night we spent in heat of moments, sweating and tumbling and fumbling on your father’s bed.

It was anywhere but there. Does love go on vacation? I ponder and make fleshy butterflies from my outstretched fingers. Probably.

I can’t remember much but I can remember the beginning. The burn of acid bleeding and gushing past my tongue and down my throat. The noises and then your silence. The clumsiness and then the awkward kisses.

You had a garden of dark hair growing from your scalp and dirt eyes. You had a

never grow up.I have a monster living underneath my bed.

He’s made up of burnt frog skin, white-red cobweb veined eyes and a collection of missing pebble teeth. Sometimes we play scrabble.

(The first time he was just a mechanical hum beneath the bowing wooden planks, he was just a faint smell of green and he was just a hot cloud of fog around my lips. It’s the wind, it’s the wind, I breathed. Then he breathed back, heavy and loud and monster-like; AM NOT.)

He always spoke in capitals; MONSTERS ARE MUCH TOO SCARY FOR LOWER-CASED LETTERS, he informed me one night under pink covers. I shined the flashlight into his eyes until they changed co

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Date Taken:Nov 25, 2009, 9:16:29 PM

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everyone else does.

pretty unflattering light & very little editing- but i look fragile and i like that.

fact: i'm wearing a shirt.
fact: this photo was taken in elise's bedroom
fact: no my lens does not have duct tape around it, why would it have duct tape around it -cough- it's not like i was trying to use an incompatible lens with it or anything -cough cough-

love 3 3

joy 1 1

wow 1 1

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

~TheArtisticLunatic Nov 21, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

beautiful. The lighting, your face, the beautiful background, it all speaks wonders to me.
I cannot lie, you are absolutely amazing.

~Geo-Devin Nov 26, 2009

The light is only a part of your tools that include your talent to enjoy the momentum of it and the will to share it. I would lie about you, but I might be unable to. Thus speaks the sweeping light that reveals all your faults. If there are none, I see none.

~krisis-x3 Jun 22, 2009

Your photography is gorgeous, your photos all have a sort of mysterious element about them that allows the viewer to make up their own meaning. It's beautiful, and you're extremely talented. ♥