I've moved my blog to Tumbler because it reads more open.
I don't know how to get you there other than giving you the address
SWALLOW MY ANKLES
I think its just swallowmyankles.tumblr.com
But I'm still working on getting everything over there.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
For the Apple
Lately I'm dreaming in color. Of fruits and emotions:
That apple was meant for me. Right there on the edge of its plate.
How long was it waiting?
Patiently anyway, that Braeburn existed. Waiting for me to thank it. And touch it and take it.
Sleepwalking, I gave it my prayer. And it gave me the Sun for a spine.
I'm merging, transfusing. My soul is deforming. That apple is teaching me past living.
That apple was meant for me. Right there on the edge of its plate.
How long was it waiting?
Patiently anyway, that Braeburn existed. Waiting for me to thank it. And touch it and take it.
Sleepwalking, I gave it my prayer. And it gave me the Sun for a spine.
I'm merging, transfusing. My soul is deforming. That apple is teaching me past living.
Posted by
ashley
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Passive Note of Parsley
I think my dreams are telling me things. But this time really telling me. And now all I think about is fire. It's where there's fire that I'm headed. And this story told me so:
There was once a factory where silk was being spun. In one room, the best room, there were millions of silk worms. Eating. Munching and eating. Mulberry leaves and eating. And the sound of millions of caterpillar eating was so loud, you'd have to wear earplugs if you visited. Just try and imagine it. Some sound usually so quite, you've never heard it in your life. Now magnified to such a degree, it would hurt you if you did.
That story comes up in my mind weekly. Sometimes daily.
It's really too simple and slightly tragic, but I'm connected to the fact that it follows me. It seems like it nags me. To remember something I forgot. This story is my talisman. But I don't know yet what for. I don't have tattoos but I gladly accept this as my anchor. A story for an anchor. A captain for my seas.
My mind comes together from this storied memory. Told and retold. Percolating into me, picture by picture. And I only know its there when I'm halfway through. And by then I'm already gone. In a dream state trance. The place where I always forget to go, but lately yearn for more than ever. Where there's that fire. Nonsensical flame.
My dreams make hardly any sense. But lately they're my best friends. Telling me things I'm much too mortal to decipher. All I can decode is a feeling. A heat that resonates within me. And all I can translate is Fire.
There was once a factory where silk was being spun. In one room, the best room, there were millions of silk worms. Eating. Munching and eating. Mulberry leaves and eating. And the sound of millions of caterpillar eating was so loud, you'd have to wear earplugs if you visited. Just try and imagine it. Some sound usually so quite, you've never heard it in your life. Now magnified to such a degree, it would hurt you if you did.
That story comes up in my mind weekly. Sometimes daily.
It's really too simple and slightly tragic, but I'm connected to the fact that it follows me. It seems like it nags me. To remember something I forgot. This story is my talisman. But I don't know yet what for. I don't have tattoos but I gladly accept this as my anchor. A story for an anchor. A captain for my seas.
My mind comes together from this storied memory. Told and retold. Percolating into me, picture by picture. And I only know its there when I'm halfway through. And by then I'm already gone. In a dream state trance. The place where I always forget to go, but lately yearn for more than ever. Where there's that fire. Nonsensical flame.
My dreams make hardly any sense. But lately they're my best friends. Telling me things I'm much too mortal to decipher. All I can decode is a feeling. A heat that resonates within me. And all I can translate is Fire.
Posted by
ashley
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
thin lips and all
sick of that taste in my mouth
and its always that taste in my mouth
too bad my mouth follows me everywhere
else i could finally chew something new
and its always that taste in my mouth
too bad my mouth follows me everywhere
else i could finally chew something new
Posted by
ashley
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Feelin It
I'm feeling hungry lately
Unsatisfied always
I'm a woman!
And my mind is going nuts
And it's not going to fail
That by midnight tonight
I'll get struck and I'll have that same craving
And then all I'll see is our dirty day trip
And the van and the ocean and our bodies
Don't worry darling
I'm not pleading,
I'm not
You just caught me on a day that I'm starving
Unsatisfied always
I'm a woman!
And my mind is going nuts
And it's not going to fail
That by midnight tonight
I'll get struck and I'll have that same craving
And then all I'll see is our dirty day trip
And the van and the ocean and our bodies
Don't worry darling
I'm not pleading,
I'm not
You just caught me on a day that I'm starving
Posted by
ashley
February Blues
Feeling flighty
And unsettled
Mischievous but low energy
And I ate 3 eggs today
Fire's going out
Come on, kindle me
Blow on my flame
Boost me up and make me smile
I want a love letter these days
Terrible timing
And unsettled
Mischievous but low energy
And I ate 3 eggs today
Fire's going out
Come on, kindle me
Blow on my flame
Boost me up and make me smile
I want a love letter these days
Terrible timing
Posted by
ashley
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Fire
So I've been thinking so much lately about my femininity. Or feeling it I should say. I feel really fluid and organic and strong from the inside. But the strength is like fire because I'm hot and salacious. Slightly vicious I may be too sexually charged. Either way its a very raw real feeling. And I've never quite experienced it before. Or maybe I have, but never like this. My inner cells are working overtime and baby I'm on fire.
Posted by
ashley
Can't Stop
Turn me loose
Set me free
The wind on my ankles
Never felt so crisp so cool
Set me free
The wind on my ankles
Never felt so crisp so cool
Posted by
ashley
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Beach Bound
have my fingers been naughty?
darlin' i think so
but that memory of the ocean
has dirtied my mind
darlin' i think so
but that memory of the ocean
has dirtied my mind
Posted by
ashley
Morning in Heaven, Nighttime in Hell-Turned-Heaven
After I vomited that disease
I really did feel much lighter
Who would've known
Those toxins weighed so much
I really did feel much lighter
Who would've known
Those toxins weighed so much
Posted by
ashley
Me O'Mine
Hah!
I'll never censor myself for anyone
And I'm shaking because of my calm
I'm holding that power that I have now
And I know that I'm lean and strong
And I'll never go down
It's kind of a stranger
But still very familiar
That the biggest drop ever
The strongest hardest one ever
Shut that dirty dog cave door for good
But don't worry baby
I just called to say thank you
I'll never censor myself for anyone
And I'm shaking because of my calm
I'm holding that power that I have now
And I know that I'm lean and strong
And I'll never go down
It's kind of a stranger
But still very familiar
That the biggest drop ever
The strongest hardest one ever
Shut that dirty dog cave door for good
But don't worry baby
I just called to say thank you
Posted by
ashley
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Beautiful and Bread
In her moment she was this perfect human.
Crying. But honestly crying.
And yelping when she was forgetting to breathe.
And her dripping wet lips
Were sticky wet lips
And I thought of a broken fawn
When she trembled.
And she carried herself very wilted.
Because her petals were too heavy with ache.
Crying. But honestly crying.
And yelping when she was forgetting to breathe.
And her dripping wet lips
Were sticky wet lips
And I thought of a broken fawn
When she trembled.
And she carried herself very wilted.
Because her petals were too heavy with ache.
Posted by
ashley
Monday, February 1, 2010
Northern Exposure
I remember when he flipped me in bed
And those sheets that were always those sheets
But when I looked up at him, to find his brown eyes
I thought I saw you in his tooth
His teeth were your teeth, but were new
His teeth were those teeth, were your teeth, but new
And it struck me that somehow,
All their new teeth will have one
Every man will bite once with that tooth
But I'm over that haunt taking over my kisses
I've stopped asking for it to come haunting
I need to forget how to let me haunt me
It's heartbreaking what one tooth can do
And those sheets that were always those sheets
But when I looked up at him, to find his brown eyes
I thought I saw you in his tooth
His teeth were your teeth, but were new
His teeth were those teeth, were your teeth, but new
And it struck me that somehow,
All their new teeth will have one
Every man will bite once with that tooth
But I'm over that haunt taking over my kisses
I've stopped asking for it to come haunting
I need to forget how to let me haunt me
It's heartbreaking what one tooth can do
Posted by
ashley
Cube in the Desert (revised)
Arid and empty. And the sand was shifting and drifting. There were no footprints-just heatwaves. On our faces and our chests. It never ended and our eyes cried. The sand stung and sung and yelled. And so we walked. No footprints but we walked. To our left the sun, to our right the cube. Mean cube. Doom cube. Walk towards the cube we did. I'm not sure if we wanted to, but we did. And as we walked towards it, we held our ladder above our heads. Proudly and sternly. It was long- 6 feet. And broken. We placed the ladder on the cube and said a prayer and climbed. Once we climbed, we were inside. But so was the horse. Our horse. Silky and tight. Not mean, but not frightened. Beautiful, really, and I know he is. But I didn't want to go near him, you know. I didn't want to feel him. He hid us from the sun. But I'm not sure I wanted that.
Posted by
ashley
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