One Sunny Morning
There is intimacy in being alone
What does it say about me—the fact that I like to dance when I am alone? I listen to music that sounds like love. It belongs to the slowest, sugared mornings, when lace clings to my skin and coffee sweetens my mouth. I pause to watch my silhouette pirouette across the mirror. For a brief hour every morning, I am the pinnacle of womanhood. I twirl. I pinch at my stomach. I lie my head on satin pillows and stare at the ceiling and think and wonder and regret. I let jazz warm my soul. My room is messy and so is my heart. My vulnerabilities need no witness to breathe. I perform femininity for my own eyes, and thus I will always remain romantic, expressive, effervescent.
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Cecile Randall
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Sediment
I can feel the rot in my body starting. I’ve been sedentary too long today, and I know it will only spread to my lungs. The branches I see from my window strike a stick-thin silhouette against the white sky. I belong with them—spindly and rooted. It would take far too much effort now to uproot myself and shake off this creeping mold and make something of myself today. I am ballast. I am corroded. I am a heavy stasis. A tree rarely falls unless some force unearths it, and no such force is coming for me. I settle deeper into the decaying sediment of myself.
By Cecile Randall2 months ago in Poets
Book Review: "The Queen" by Andrew Morton
You're probably wondering why on earth I would read this book. It was free and it was a fair length. That was basically it at first. But another reason is because I enjoyed the show The Crown and so, it only makes sense to read a book that goes through separating facts from fictions - and to be fair, there aren't a lot of fictions about the show it seems. From the birth of the little princess and the way in which her father was reluctantly to become the king, all the way to meeting and marrying the veteran prince, Duke of Edinburgh and even down to the death of her father, queendom and beyond, this book actually gives us a lot about a woman who basically embodied the greatness and modernisation of the British 20th Century.
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