"Revenant"

nobody@vox.com(Lys) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:42:33 -0600

"Revenant" by Christian Wiman

She loved the fevered air, the green delirium
in the leaves as a late wind whipped and quickened--
a storm cloud glut with color like a plum.
Nothing could keep her from the fields then,
from waiting braced alone in the breaking heat
while lightening flared and disappeared around her,
thunder rattling the windows. I remember
the stories I heard my relatives repeat
Of how spirits spoke through her clearest words,
her sudden eloquent confusion, trapped eyes,
the storms she loved because they were not hers:
her white face under the unburdening skies
upturned to feel the burn that never came:
that furious insight and the end of pain.

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QotD: Can't Get You Out of My Head

nobody@vox.com(Lys) — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:29:14 -0500

What song or lyrics are stuck in your head at the moment? What album is it from?
Submitted by Lox Ly.

I once knew a girl in the years of my youth
With eyes like the summer, all beauty and truth
In the morning I fled, left a note and it read
"Someday you will be loved"

I cannot pretend that I felt any regret
'Cause each broken heart will eventually mend
As the blood runs red down the needle and thread
"Someday you will be loved"

You'll be loved, you'll be loved
Like you never have known
And the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs, like I never occurred
"Someday you will be loved"

You may feel alone when you're falling asleep
Every time tears roll down your cheeks
But I know your heart belongs to someone you've yet to meet
"Someday you will be loved"

You'll be loved, you'll be loved
Like you never have known
And the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs, like I never occurred
"Someday you will be loved"

Death Cab for Cutie - Someday You Will Be Loved. Such a sad song.

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Amusing musings.

"Revenant"

QotD: Can't Get You Out of My Head