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a different kind of gothic romance

2006-10-29T18:06:46-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 68, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-29-06, Published: 10-29-06
Status: Complete

she crawled across my fingertips, murmuring memories of houses aflame

ut pictura poesis

2006-10-29T17:50:46-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 131, Reviews: 4 Updated: 10-29-06, Published: 10-29-06
Status: Complete

...'as in painting, so in poetry.' How to begin a poem when the subject no longer exists?

untitled III

2006-10-05T06:32:54-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 103, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-5-06, Published: 10-5-06
Status: Complete

I feel your bones in the stone beneath my feet.

Lovely

2006-09-23T08:04:08-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 61, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-23-06, Published: 9-23-06
Status: Complete

Four years old, curls of gold and the bluest eyes you'll ever see

it's raining again in manhattan

2006-09-14T11:49:51-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 153, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-14-06, Published: 9-14-06
Status: Complete

- lines composed on the Staten Island Ferry. "half-finished, never-completed- what sadder fate could there be"

vespers

2006-09-11T16:33:25-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 156, Reviews: 4 Updated: 9-11-06, Published: 9-11-06
Status: Complete

- here, this is more. an ode to the divine as found in nature.

pygmalion

2006-09-07T17:16:10-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-7-06, Published: 9-7-06
Status: Complete

- it's not betrayal if you're unrequited

we are a poem in the rough

2006-09-04T15:13:46-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 27, Reviews: 4 Updated: 9-4-06, Published: 9-4-06
Status: Complete

I always wondered how stubble would feel beneath my lips.

blueshift

2006-08-29T18:17:57-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 40, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-29-06, Published: 8-29-06
Status: Complete

I am found.

never never land

2006-08-24T11:24:36-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 34, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-24-06, Published: 8-24-06
Status: Complete

- sisterly devotion, a study in light and dark.

invocation on an urn

2006-08-24T11:22:05-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 83, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-24-06, Published: 8-24-06
Status: Complete

- look beyond the worldframe

it's a slippery slope

2006-08-24T07:29:18-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 28, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-24-06, Published: 8-24-06
Status: Complete

- but we're only human.

good night sweet ladies good night

2006-08-20T09:52:20-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 117, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-20-06, Published: 8-20-06
Status: Complete

Ophelia drowns.

Nine O'Clock in Gaithersburg

2006-08-18T21:51:15-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 90, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-18-06, Published: 8-18-06
Status: Complete

Of finding the pulse of the earth even in the city, and acknowledging the most basic of all loves.

A Matter of Endearments

2006-08-07T16:43:09-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 223, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-7-06, Published: 8-7-06
Status: Complete

Here and now I forswear the endearments I've crafted you with such love over the years.

This Was Beauty: When Women Wore Curves

2006-07-28T12:11:04-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 186, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-28-06, Published: 7-28-06
Status: Complete

Once upon a time, woman was considered beautiful without having to squeeze, starve, and otherwise beat her body into the perfect shape. What happened?

Elaine

2006-07-26T10:55:42-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 5, Words: 411, Reviews: 18 Updated: 7-26-06, Published: 5-15-06
Status: Complete

Four grey walls and four grey towers overlook a space of flowers...

Freckles

2006-07-22T13:17:24-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 24, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-22-06, Published: 7-22-06
Status: Complete

strange the memories that stay with you

untitled II

2006-07-22T13:04:37-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 124, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-22-06, Published: 7-22-06
Status: Complete

when you can taste your pulse at the back of your mouth -

One Way Coventry

2006-07-01T09:19:09-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 48, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-1-06, Published: 7-1-06
Status: Complete

When all is said and done...

Noctivagant

2006-06-28T20:47:36-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 142, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-28-06, Published: 6-28-06
Status: Complete

The moon, hanging from the bough of stars, melts with the pull of the tide.

Transcending Saturday

2006-06-10T19:30:20-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 48, Reviews: 6 Updated: 6-10-06, Published: 6-10-06
Status: Complete

Graduation looms (he calls it the end of the world).

Samsara

2006-06-10T19:23:56-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 71, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-10-06, Published: 6-10-06
Status: Complete

He is the source and the mouth and the hand that fails to blot the sky from being.

Untitled

2006-06-09T13:00:09-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 53, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-9-06, Published: 6-9-06
Status: Complete

sometimes the written word can be so limiting

gira y canta

2006-06-03T19:30:29-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 67, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-3-06, Published: 6-3-06
Status: Complete

flamen juventas, you stand too close

Central Pennsylvanian Baptism

2006-05-29T16:58:25-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 49, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-29-06, Published: 5-29-06
Status: Complete

Don't judge a poem by its title. (Spiritual, not religious.)

Canticle

2006-05-12T15:35:55-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 31, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-12-06, Published: 5-12-06
Status: Complete

Ever felt like part of you was missing, but soon to be discovered?

Oiseau Rebelle

2006-05-11T19:22:31-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 152, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-11-06, Published: 5-11-06
Status: Complete

Inspired in part by Bizet's Carmen: 'L'amour est une oiseau rebelle' (love is a rebellious bird).

Nocturne

2006-05-07T10:50:20-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 167, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-7-06, Published: 5-7-06
Status: Complete

I must have been dreaming...

Little Boy Blue

2006-04-30T17:39:32-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 134, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-30-06, Published: 4-30-06
Status: Complete

love love love he prelects (but Morpheus is such a determined flirt).

Brambles

2006-04-25T15:44:12-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 37, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-25-06, Published: 4-25-06
Status: Complete

Society's strictures betray the heart's desires (she was born two decades too late).

Amor Vincit Insomnia

2006-04-24T15:59:27-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 118, Reviews: 1 Updated: 4-24-06, Published: 4-24-06
Status: Complete

how easy it is to numb the edges, to blur the pain preceding genius

Vis a Vis

2006-04-24T13:07:14-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 85, Reviews: 5 Updated: 4-24-06, Published: 4-24-06
Status: Complete

they, together: a p a r t, and bound

Yellow

2006-04-09T07:47:20-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 108, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-9-06, Published: 4-9-06
Status: Complete

The cracks in the ceiling are whispering secrets from the corners of their generous mouths.

Heptastich

2006-04-07T17:56:13-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 49, Reviews: 5 Updated: 4-7-06, Published: 4-7-06
Status: Complete

Sing me out of this gray, and I will sing you manifest.

Ask Not

2006-04-07T17:42:06-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 145, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-7-06, Published: 4-7-06
Status: Complete

Calpurnia, Calpurnia, get the door. Part Five of The Icarus Suite.

Silhouettes

2006-04-06T16:33:55-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 77, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-6-06, Published: 4-6-06
Status: Complete

If she screams at the sky, will he still hear it? Fourth in The Icarus Suite, but you don't need to read the first three to get it.

Wrought

2006-04-03T16:12:48-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 36, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-3-06, Published: 4-3-06
Status: Complete

Enough is enough.

she calls herself ariel

2006-04-03T15:49:58-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 37, Reviews: 7 Updated: 4-3-06, Published: 4-3-06
Status: Complete

"...and wonders if she has stumbled across a metaphor." The product of reading too much Lorca and Plath simultaneously.

Some Hundred Miles: For Musaeus

2006-04-01T18:51:25-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 192, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-1-06, Published: 4-1-06
Status: Complete

...on his nineteenth birthday. Go n-eírí an bóthar leat... may the road rise with you.

la nana: drafting gods

2006-03-30T13:28:09-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 110, Reviews: 2 Updated: 3-30-06, Published: 3-30-06
Status: Complete

One by one, she gathers dropped quills. Third in the Icarus Suite.

Wedgwood

2006-03-25T20:13:56-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Biography
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 386, Reviews: 1 Updated: 3-25-06, Published: 3-25-06
Status: Complete

Sometimes it's so easy to forget to breathe.

Achromatic

2006-03-19T10:03:19-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 53, Reviews: 2 Updated: 3-19-06, Published: 3-19-06
Status: Complete

Sometimes she finds solace in those gray wastelands of existence.

Valediction

2006-03-19T08:11:54-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 275, Reviews: 4 Updated: 3-19-06, Published: 3-19-06
Status: Complete

I think I may miss this place.

ángelos

2006-03-14T16:54:37-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 191, Reviews: 3 Updated: 3-14-06, Published: 3-14-06
Status: Complete

Wings are not apportioned to ill-starred Grecians alone. Second in the Icarus Suite.

Cezanne

2006-03-09T18:15:51-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 88, Reviews: 6 Updated: 3-9-06, Published: 3-9-06
Status: Complete

There's a reason, he said, that all the best are tormented.

Grazed Knees

2006-03-09T14:02:53-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 198, Reviews: 4 Updated: 3-9-06, Published: 3-9-06
Status: Complete

What a pretty winding sheet this preconception is.

Icarus

2006-03-09T13:49:08-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 54, Reviews: 3 Updated: 3-9-06, Published: 3-9-06
Status: Complete

Free of those icaruswinged words (he says they taste of rubber and soul), greekfire spills through and burns away the night.

Aphonic Immolation

2006-03-07T14:38:45-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 106, Reviews: 4 Updated: 3-7-06, Published: 3-7-06
Status: Complete

If she could only unlock her breastbone, open the ribcage cloistercell and spill its contents at his feet, maybe he would descry the light leaking from her pores. (Sometimes words just aren't enough).

Lapsus Linguae

2006-03-06T14:33:49-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 47, Reviews: 5 Updated: 3-6-06, Published: 3-6-06
Status: Complete

She's choking on what could have been... (forgive me, love).

We Can Do It!

2006-03-05T10:55:32-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 61, Reviews: 1 Updated: 3-5-06, Published: 3-5-06
Status: Complete

Yellow roses and red bandanas... and she's disappointed them again.

Tirra Lirra

2006-02-28T17:37:54-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 147, Reviews: 5 Updated: 2-28-06, Published: 2-28-06
Status: Complete

A whimsical look at a love that hasn't come around just yet.

Mea Culpa

2006-02-23T15:33:54-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 38, Reviews: 4 Updated: 2-23-06, Published: 2-23-06
Status: Complete

Quite old... written for English last year. A glimpse of one of my favorite characters, Rev. John Hale, post-Crucible.

Peregrine

2006-02-23T15:15:36-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 269, Reviews: 3 Updated: 2-23-06, Published: 2-23-06
Status: Complete

For Kelle, the original review whore; turnabout is fair play. It's been a long time in the works. I'm sorry- I did my best.

Artemis Vacillant

2006-02-22T16:38:59-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 24, Reviews: 6 Updated: 2-22-06, Published: 2-22-06
Status: Complete

like Morpheus in the snow.

Romaunt

2006-02-14T13:01:14-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 80, Reviews: 3 Updated: 2-14-06, Published: 2-14-06
Status: Complete

Vermillion sunshine in my hand... an ode to the only part of Valentine's Day I like. The flowers.

Oneiros: A Lullaby

2006-02-07T14:06:22-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 179, Reviews: 7 Updated: 2-7-06, Published: 2-7-06
Status: Complete

At night, when the room is awash in indigo and slate, and the only sound is the sibilance of my breath and the hiss of leaves painting the roof silver, I can almost remember.

The Lady of Situations

2006-02-04T13:14:30-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 237, Reviews: 5 Updated: 2-4-06, Published: 2-4-06
Status: Complete

Another inspired by Eliot. Did she see the Wheel on its head? Did you pull it from the pack, that fanged collection of prophecies stolen from stone-bound oracles? Or was it the Three of Wands?

Anavriti Shabdat: Liberation by Sound

2006-02-03T13:49:59-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 3, Words: 57, Reviews: 8 Updated: 2-3-06, Published: 1-22-06
Status: Complete

A series of snippets that never amounted to full poems, but that I liked too much to abandon... if you have any ideas, please contact me!

La Fille Qui Pleure

2006-01-21T11:23:00-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 31, Reviews: 5 Updated: 1-21-06, Published: 1-21-06
Status: Complete

They always say fear serves to protect.

Bruises

2006-01-21T11:04:20-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 12, Reviews: 3 Updated: 1-21-06, Published: 1-21-06
Status: Complete

This is the darkest it's ever gotten.

Please

2006-01-21T10:40:06-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 32, Reviews: 6 Updated: 1-21-06, Published: 1-21-06
Status: Complete

It's cold and dark and painful here (and I'm not really asking for that much).

Redshift II

2006-01-19T15:04:40-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 55, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-19-06, Published: 1-19-06
Status: Complete

He says my eyes are like river ice (and I know, no matter what they say, there's no such thing as forgive and forget).

Redshift

2006-01-18T14:08:06-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 181, Reviews: 3 Updated: 1-18-06, Published: 1-18-06
Status: Complete

Am I not more than you expected? Or just not what was advertised? (They don't sell reality in magazine ads)

Coronach

2006-01-17T07:51:21-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 95, Reviews: 4 Updated: 1-17-06, Published: 1-16-06
Status: Complete

Requiescat in pace, friend who might-have-been. Poem and short prose piece.

Belladonna

2006-01-06T18:49:18-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 140, Reviews: 6 Updated: 1-6-06, Published: 1-6-06
Status: Complete

"This is the bitter wormwood that poisoned the beautiful dream; this is what killed Don Quixote, and now it is killing me." Please, please, PLEASE sign the One Declaration and help put an end to global poverty and AIDS.

Du'a

2006-01-06T17:31:56-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 454, Reviews: 6 Updated: 1-6-06, Published: 1-6-06
Status: Complete

An agnostic's supplication (do not send life preservers: my soul does not need saving, it just needs a map).

Smoke Signals

2006-01-06T14:08:06-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 170, Reviews: 5 Updated: 1-6-06, Published: 1-6-06
Status: Complete

It all comes down to this, you said and pledged your soul to the bloodtearsandbullion. A collection of political commentary pieces. Liberal is NOT a swearword!

Blueshift II

2006-01-05T07:46:31-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 51, Reviews: 4 Updated: 1-5-06, Published: 1-5-06
Status: Complete

Snowdrop sunlight slants inward like a coquette's glance.

The World Ends Tomorrow

2006-01-02T11:05:03-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 294, Reviews: 7 Updated: 1-2-06, Published: 1-2-06
Status: Complete

"And I'm afraid this isn't a drill, not just smoke and sirens." Tried something new... not sure if it worked. Let me know what you think! Note: this is NOT to be taken seriously!

Viva Bohemia

2005-12-30T18:31:36-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 72, Reviews: 5 Updated: 12-30-05, Published: 12-30-05
Status: Complete

He knows I'm afraid of the dark.

Je Ne Comprends

2005-12-30T17:58:18-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 43, Reviews: 5 Updated: 12-30-05, Published: 12-30-05
Status: Complete

And je ne comprends le francais, she says, je ne comprends le francais.

Throw the Baby In

2005-12-23T21:52:14-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 41, Reviews: 2 Updated: 12-23-05, Published: 12-23-05
Status: Complete

Good morning, graduation day.

Just Another Love Story

2005-12-22T19:25:35-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 153, Reviews: 6 Updated: 12-22-05, Published: 12-22-05
Status: Complete

She can't believe her green heart when it says he's looking at her.

Both

2005-12-21T11:38:20-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 285, Reviews: 3 Updated: 12-21-05, Published: 12-21-05
Status: Complete

She knows that somewhere-somewhen-somehow, someone is both (like those days when the squalid winter sun burns makes the earth's bedraggled ermine mantle gleam like crushed opals)

Helios Falling

2005-12-15T13:40:08-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 21, Reviews: 4 Updated: 12-15-05, Published: 12-15-05
Status: Complete

One of those moments when I forget to breathe.

A Christmas Carol

2005-12-14T17:12:56-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 102, Reviews: 3 Updated: 12-14-05, Published: 12-14-05
Status: Complete

All I need's the patched hat and crutch / And this evening could not get / More Dickensian...

Confessions of a Bibliophile

2005-11-30T16:42:40-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 147, Reviews: 9 Updated: 11-30-05, Published: 11-30-05
Status: Complete

My love affair with old books...

Snow Beetle Butterfly Kisses

2005-11-30T15:33:25-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 6 Updated: 11-30-05, Published: 11-30-05
Status: Complete

What a lovely reincarnation day / for a finite phoenix like me!

The Starling's Lament

2005-11-19T09:44:06-08:00

Author: gitana
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 189, Reviews: 3 Updated: 11-19-05, Published: 11-19-05
Status: Complete

The Celtic myth of Bran and Branwen, told from the p.o.v. of the starling that carried Branwen's message back to Wales.