HeyJaredPersephone's Night Garden
For the changelings still searching for home, we grow flowers here and light the dark.
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Morning comes, the sun rising in a terror of gold across the sky. I sit up. I begin again.Each day, I walk in my own footsteps, tracing the consequences of my actions through the same familiar patterns in the dirt. I chase the hourglass down to its final trickle of sand, review all I have done, and tell myself: tomorrow will be better.Tomorrow will rise like a phoenix from the flames. Tomorrow, we will take life by the throat: conquerors, not the conquered.Oh, who am I fooling?I could be an orac
poison berries (opens the original)
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I look for poison berries in the garden, and when I find myself bereft, I look to the forest. Beneath strands of ivy that grasp my ankles like a lover’s fingers. I smear berries across my mouth in shades of blue, purple, violent red.I look for poison berries in the forest, and when I find myself without, I look in far worse places. Never mind the serpent. Never mind the barbed leaves. I sink my hands into the thorns until they come away bloody.In the desert, I am taunted by every mirage, every p
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