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twelve

2009-09-07T13:33:51-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 12, Words: 1,820, Reviews: 40 Updated: 9-7-09, Published: 4-13-08
Status: Complete

and with every frantic blink of the strobe light, my memory of you flickers and fades before me.

galileo's daughter

2008-10-14T21:08:17-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 103, Reviews: 5 Updated: 10-14-08, Published: 10-14-08
Status: Complete

I'm spinning out of orbit. it's midnight, and gravity is only a lunar dream.

painted midnight

2008-05-20T20:10:42-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Hurt/Comfort
Chapters: 1, Words: 190, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-20-08, Published: 5-20-08
Status: Complete

almost a villanelle: in the twilight of your soul, your secrets, like stars, are blurred and stolen. how they blind me at midnight.

geography of a heart

2008-05-18T20:54:17-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 83, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-18-08, Published: 5-18-08
Status: Complete

unfamiliar terrain, this city I'm wandering in, where love is a drug peddled on every street corner, and the gates won't let me go.

wallflower

2008-05-18T17:17:09-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 114, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-18-08, Published: 5-18-08
Status: Complete

she never quite caught the friday night fever.

prisms and prisons

2008-05-16T17:57:22-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 146, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-16-08, Published: 5-16-08
Status: Complete

sometimes I slip inside a metaphor to escape the confines of who I cannot be.

the audacity of spring

2008-04-17T21:53:58-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 141, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-17-08, Published: 4-17-08
Status: Complete

april 1st, the cruelest joke of all. how dare the earth be reborn while you are lying in a shell of dead wood! how can the seasons stomach it?

Eden

2008-03-21T20:55:45-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 92, Reviews: 8 Updated: 3-21-08, Published: 3-21-08
Status: Complete

In the garden of Paradise, unknowing, you taunt me with forbidden fruit, the nectar of your skin shining sweet, like appleflesh.

how i live now

2008-02-22T18:20:49-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 89, Reviews: 5 Updated: 2-22-08, Published: 2-22-08
Status: Complete

no longer counting sheep, this self-induced insomnia has me wondering about the purpose of my ever-dwindling slumber and where my dreams have gone.

Don't Listen

2008-02-15T20:11:52-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 379, Reviews: 8 Updated: 2-15-08, Published: 2-15-08
Status: Complete

Prose poem. Within these lines, the words scream to fill my silence, shriek with all I am not saying, all I never will.

These Orchards of Birth and Bone

2008-01-05T16:42:45-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 69, Reviews: 4 Updated: 1-5-08, Published: 1-5-08
Status: Complete

The fruits of their labor lie rotted at the base of each lightning struck tree. Peach sweet, never to blossom.

A Missive to the White House

2008-01-01T15:32:36-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 214, Reviews: 4 Updated: 1-1-08, Published: 1-1-08
Status: Complete

Your lifeless appeal to the American people is a red, white, and blue rhetoric. Washington is rolling in his grave.

Pipe Dreams

2008-01-01T10:00:08-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 142, Reviews: 1 Updated: 1-1-08, Published: 1-1-08
Status: Complete

The letters assumed docile acceptance of the domestic symphony. But her dreams, grown from opium dens and in the Indian sun, are too big for chinaglazed Victorian ideals. She will not become another decoration in their beautifully empty homes.

Congratulations, Columbus

2007-12-31T20:02:59-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 171, Reviews: 3 Updated: 12-31-07, Published: 12-31-07
Status: Complete

This is the New World holocaust we don't like to talk about, what conquerors, seeking gold and glory, carried across the Atlantic. The Nina brought disorganization. The Pinta, disease. And the Santa Maria, death to the native people. Our inheritance.

Star Show at the Cinema

2007-12-31T11:51:48-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 96, Reviews: 5 Updated: 12-31-07, Published: 12-31-07
Status: Complete

As you watch the meteors plummet across the screen, my gaze is locked on you like a star coming home.

seven ways to die

2007-12-23T13:59:32-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 3, Words: 380, Reviews: 15 Updated: 12-23-07, Published: 11-23-07
Status: In-Progress

sylvia said, dying is an art, like everything else. inspired by the bell jar and lady lazarus.

holiday on skid row

2007-12-19T18:24:48-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 82, Reviews: 2 Updated: 12-19-07, Published: 12-19-07
Status: Complete

christmas no longer a holy day in your house, but a bitter reminder of all that you lack.

ember

2007-11-17T20:33:07-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 120, Reviews: 4 Updated: 11-17-07, Published: 11-17-07
Status: Complete

and it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark. I'm on fire almost, I'm burning, but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am.

Epistle to the Victorians

2007-10-09T20:51:03-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 162, Reviews: 5 Updated: 10-9-07, Published: 10-9-07
Status: Complete

Woman, without her man, is nothing. Woman: without her, man is nothing.

Vermilion

2007-09-02T11:01:12-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 144, Reviews: 9 Updated: 9-2-07, Published: 9-2-07
Status: Complete

Winter sunset in ancient Greece. On her underworld throne, Persephone waits for spring.

bitter lullaby

2007-06-07T20:23:06-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 142, Reviews: 6 Updated: 6-7-07, Published: 6-7-07
Status: Complete

even nursery rhymes are no longer sacred...rockaby baby was never so dark.

Mellifluous

2007-06-02T19:45:58-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 99, Reviews: 6 Updated: 6-2-07, Published: 6-2-07
Status: Complete

I am envious of your flute.

magnolias

2007-05-30T19:19:45-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-30-07, Published: 5-30-07
Status: Complete

like the magnolias, you captivated me. though they've long since wilted, you still intrigue me.

watercolor days

2007-05-30T18:26:03-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 56, Reviews: 8 Updated: 5-30-07, Published: 5-30-07
Status: Complete

watercolor poets blur, but their words are etched like acrylic on my canvased mind.

trainwreck

2007-05-30T18:07:42-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 243, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-30-07, Published: 5-30-07
Status: Complete

with the way man's been talking for centuries, you'd think the apocalypse was just around the corner. and who knows, maybe it is.

the year

2007-05-30T17:57:28-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 491, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-30-07, Published: 5-30-07
Status: Complete

oh caesar, I hate your spectred cage of divided time: these twelve months are too grand to fit in a pocket calendar.

moon scream

2007-05-30T17:46:50-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 95, Reviews: 8 Updated: 5-30-07, Published: 5-30-07
Status: Complete

what have our footprints been, but scars?

letters from walden

2007-05-30T17:44:22-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 112, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-30-07, Published: 5-30-07
Status: Complete

even thoreau snuck back into boston for a glance at the new york times.

pandora's box

2007-05-30T17:37:54-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Fantasy
Chapters: 2, Words: 111, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-30-07, Published: 5-30-07
Status: In-Progress

a series of sketches of classical figures, both myth and man: newest are icarus and socrates. don't ask me why.

epitaph

2007-05-30T17:30:09-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 134, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-30-07, Published: 5-30-07
Status: In-Progress

bury me only if you promise not to look for these bones. and no, anna, this is not a suicide note, in case you were wondering.

cocoon

2007-05-30T17:24:41-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 147, Reviews: 8 Updated: 5-30-07, Published: 5-30-07
Status: Complete

call me a suicidal butterfly if you will, but know that this prison is mine by choice.

cacophony

2007-05-30T17:15:19-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 81, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-30-07, Published: 5-30-07
Status: Complete

chopin's exploitation of your ears never disturbed you before.

beautiful insomniac

2007-05-30T17:13:06-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 133, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-30-07, Published: 5-30-07
Status: Complete

oh, to sleep, perchance to dream. But shakespeare seems to have forgotten we dreamers of the sleepless nights.