qarrtsiluni

by Gabrielle D

eternity: a small room with cleverly positioned mirrors
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dignity is a drafty coat in this winter farce
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Mozart’s meadows, Bach’s caverns
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diablo con leche
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UNMENSCHLICHE DECIBELS
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tender unmaskings
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Wagner is a very slowly sinking cruise ship
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the fallacy that is triumph
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clothed in silence, standing tall in her hell
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pacing in circles in the small, dirty cages of their beliefs
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love is a chemical betrayal
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pyramid heart, with so many nobodies at the bottom and you at the top
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the sweetness of abandonment—the space love no longer occupies glows with spiced nerves and undone silkstrings
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the vague white noise of a thousand voices / the pierce of a single voice
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loss is a temple
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you of lips laced with the harmonics of untold kisses
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is there a perfume to mask despair?
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untoward guests welcome
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cocooned smugly in her chaos
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kindred dissonances in a tonal wasteland

Gabrielle D was born in 1989, and is a pianist and singer in Seattle. Though music was her first language (and love), she writes regularly, and published a small article in the Glenn Gould Foundation Blog when she was 20 years old.