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Bucolic: Sheep's MilkBucolic: Sheep's Milk

I worry
of Your bones:
heavy
as milk, and sour
as curdle.
Your femur
in the crust
on the pail's rim,
Your ribcage
in the skin.

I break it- must–
consume that milkiness
like a dead lamb's eye:

How else can I
see You, steep
in Your figure,
in both Your whole
and your broken bones?Bucolic: Sheep's Milk by ~ruffienne

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poem1
Feathered dark eyes and a long slope
to velvet lips and snout, grotesquely
expressive, nosing pockets for food.
The face, if white or black, skeletal,
bears the Impostor; his high head, mouth
foaming with effort or evil
or effort against evil, not
to follow
the reins.

2 The hair and musk
rise in the sun;
the path stretches dust
between the ears, goes on.
Then a knee and a heel, a rumbling through the ground
the rocking forward-thudding back, the timeless
cantering to the end, the horizon and over.

Then over is a stable,
----- a cool-down and walk in, the
----- hushing and patting, hosing down,
the cleaned hpoem by ~ruffienne

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you must singYou must sing to be found; when found, you must sing.
-Li-Young Lee

Those weeks when you stand at the mirror, your face harrowed; those days and hours, your pulse clawing at a tight angry eel living below the heart, between the lungs. And how you try to throw him out, your dinghy solid enough but tipped by this storm-scaled weight.
You try to drown him, to leave his knife-edge gills with nothing to sift air from. Convulse and heave over the sink, pail out the water by rivulet and stream. Your knuckles stiffen with splinters and your face swells in the mirror.
You curl on the deck, the fish circling. You stand at the sink.
Cup water, cleyou must sing by ~ruffienne

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IrelandEire; the country, not the element
(though the element, if any, might lend itself
to the way the country isn't)
the country I can only see
from the plane window, from the prospective,
its green and undeniable life
a far cry
from anything it';s been

or anything I've seen
so as I consider the quartered potatoes on my plate,
I'm also considering the wet soil
once around them, and the heavy shoulders
of my ancestors, laboring out to the fields,
thankful for whatever their earth
could give.Ireland by ~ruffienne

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caroline

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Current Residence: Chicago
deviantWEAR sizing preference: M
Favourite photographer: you should look at Finvara and Eliara
Favourite style of art: Writing, Vector/Vexel, Photography, Film
Operating System: Mac OSX 10.4
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Favourite cartoon character: Hobbes

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by ~ruffienne, Apr 12, 2009, 8:22:31 PM
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Just to validate myself, I have been writing my dailies for NaPo-- I don't upload all of them, because I don't like some-- but mainly NaPo is to get me writing every day. I don't really want too much fuss over it, for my own sake. I'll consider it a success if I turn out some decent work that I can revise over the next weeks and months.
Thanks to all-- mostly ~RoseOfChaos for egging me on. And happy day-bloodied-and-bruised-jesus-turned-into-a-zombie day! Hope you enjoy your religious services!

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Mood: Optimism
Listening to: Swing Life Away // Rise Against
Reading: crossword puzzles
Playing: N
Drinking: Dr. Pepper

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~MissNomie May 20, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

thanks very much for the watch! i appreciate it. c:

~ruffienne May 20, 2010

sure! C: I love your style!

~NathanWhitaker Oct 31, 2009

Thank you for the watch.

~Dani-the-Naiad Oct 15, 2009 Hobbyist Writer

hey!

~kyomichi5252 pointed you out to me.
I'll have to take some good time to really read your gallery - but I didn't have much time right now- I did get to read a few though and I think my brain is tired. Since this is so, it's not best time for me to be reading poetry- I'm slow

So I'll have to find the time later- for now I thought I'd just say hi and so I can remind myself to return!

~ruffienne Oct 16, 2009

Oookay! Thanks a lot for looking!

*b1gfan Aug 23, 2009 Student Writer

Hi Caroline - Wonderful DD and so well deserved too! Congratulations.

~mode-de-vie Aug 23, 2009 Student Writer

Congratulations on your Daily Deviation!

I've placed a link to it in the sidebar of my journal page.

~aleeshii-chic Aug 23, 2009

^{Congrats on the Daily Deviation!}

*enchantma May 19, 2009 Professional Digital Artist

beautiful writing style~
keep it up~

~ruffienne May 20, 2009

thank you! <3

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