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Leftover Wine.

"I love using my sheep bartering tool (language) to express deep truths better communicated by gestures, chemicals, and diagrams. A fun exer[c]ize in constraints, not frustrating at all" --@ctrlcreep

Candles in the Rain.

"Witness

Against the enormous rocks of a rough coast
The ocean rams itself in pitched assault
And spastic rage to which there is no halt;
Foam-white brigades collapse; but the huge host

Has infinite reserves; at each attack
The impassive cliffs look down in gray disdain
At scenes of sacrifice, unrelieved pain,
Figured in froth, aquamarine and black.

Something in the blood-chemistry of life,
Unspeakable, impressive, undeterred,
Expresses itself without needing a word
In this sea-crazed Empedoclean Strife.

It is a scene of unmatched melancholy,
Weather of misery, cloud cover of distress,
To which there are not witnesses, unless
One counts the briny, tough and thorned sea holly."

--Anthony Hecht

Ruby Tuesday.