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Tess Wilder  

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  • Deviant since Apr 17, 2003, 2:04 PM
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skin distance

Between skin and skin, the distance  is immeasurable, is infinite in each moment--  thick and rich like honey, viscous  with anticipation  in the spare moments, the eternal  and undying moments before  we touch.

Recent Deviations

storm, part twoI kissed her--the storm had made me daring.   
Then the world broke in two  
with a noise like splitting wood  or splitting air—which it was--  against my closed eyelids I could see  the forked, bright track of lightning.  It struck a rock so near  I could have run to it in a heartbeat.   
She couldn't hear, but I  
made her see, and we ran--  I never looked to see if she was behind me  or ahead.  I ran hard and fast while lightning struck on all sides,  through rain too thick for sight,  forever. storm, part two
in Open on 3/3/07
storm, part oneHis lips were electric; I tasted  ozone, sizzling, sharp in the back of my mouth.  I didn't know why  he broke away, gestured--  the sky had opened into  
a world of cold hard rain,  
a world without room for any other sound.   
I had always loved a gathering storm,  had come to the water with him to watch  clouds darken, to see salt waves  reflect the turmoil in the sky.  “It's green,” I said, and  
the sky opened above us--  but he was afraid, because a jagged finger  of lightning  had kissed a rock in the water just there...  He made me understand, and we storm, part one
in Open on 3/3/07
PrismOnce  
when I was small  I stepped into a room of captured light,  where colors danced on all the walls  and more bits of glass than I could count  hung in the windows.  The plants  drank rainbows; I drank juice  while light was broken all around me. Prism
in Open on 3/3/07
Big Bad"What big eyes you have, grandmother!" He bites  back a sigh, recites his lines, anticipates indigestion.  The walk home is wet. His pay is heavy  
bills in a thick stack--  not good work but honest, who  would tell the tale without the wolf?   
His wife and cubs are waiting, warm at home.   
Despite the spitting drizzle,  cash a brick in his pocket,  
his feet whisk him  swiftly down a different street--  
careful, unseen, ears pricked--  to the shabby door with its worn sign and collection slot:  "Widows and Orphans" in faded grey,  made shiny by the rain. Big Bad
in Open on 3/3/07
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Stopping by yet again...

Journal Entry: Sat Mar 3, 2007, 6:37 PM
I don't come here often, but now that I'm writing again I might make it a more frequent stop.

Life is... life. I'm in school full-time, and working. I'm so busy I have very little time to do anything other than class, work, homework, and sleep.

I'm married now, which I'm very happy about.

It's neat to come back here, now, and browse through old comments and notes, and realize how many people I've had in my life for so long that things they wrote four years ago could have been written yesterday, that our friendship just doesn't change.

I am fortunate to be so loved.

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Devious Information

  • Current Age: 29
  • Current Residence: South Portland, Maine
  • Interests: Most things are interesting to me.
  • Favourite movie: Spirited Away is still up there. Boondock Saints, too.
  • Favourite band or musician: Ani Difranco... many others... I love pandora.com right now.
  • Favourite genre of music: female singer-songwriters, mostly
  • Favourite artist: lots and LOTS
  • Favourite poet or writer: Neil Gaiman
  • Favourite style or digital art: collage/multimedia
  • Operating System: Ubuntu Linux
  • Wallpaper of choice: something fractal by sya, usually
  • Skin of choice: mine, uncovered
  • Favourite game: none of them, at the moment
  • Favourite cartoon character: Brak. Or Frylock. Points if you know..
  • Personal Quote: I believe in the possibility of stability but I think I'm deluding myself.
  • Tools of the Trade: writing utensil, paper, imagination

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~Rivertrance:iconRivertrance: Apr 1, 2007, 6:17:18 PM
Thanks for making me your friend
~tessuraea:icontessuraea: Mar 8, 2007, 8:22:26 AM
I'm glad you're still making art (more than ever, it looks like, though not necessarily on DA--am I right?), because you're one of the people whose work I always look forward to when I come back.

I've been all right. Busy, not writing much--but I'm trying to change that.

Please keep making art I can enjoy and admire, okay? :)

--
I believe in nothing; everything is sacred.
I believe in everything; nothing is sacred.
`sya:iconsya: Mar 6, 2007, 10:34:23 PM
Thank you for your comments and for coming back to keep in touch every now and again. How have you been these days?

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"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it truly is, infinite." -William Blake
~tessuraea:icontessuraea: Mar 6, 2007, 8:50:15 AM
You are too fit.

One of the most important things about my writing, as far as I'm concerned, is that it needs to make sense to non-poets. What's the sense to writing poetry just for other poets to appreciate?

So if you read it, and it makes you think of things or feel things, even if you have no idea why, I'm really happy.

Also, your drawing, it is wonderful. :D

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I believe in nothing; everything is sacred.
I believe in everything; nothing is sacred.
~Anakiir:iconAnakiir: Mar 6, 2007, 8:22:40 AM
(Wow, that emoticon is not what I thought it was. Heh.)

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All your arms are belong to me!
...you just don't know it yet...
~Anakiir:iconAnakiir: Mar 6, 2007, 8:16:44 AM Mood: Love
Hi, Tess!

Hope you don't mind if I watch you. :X

I'm not fit to crit, but your writing, it is wonderful.

--
All your arms are belong to me!
...you just don't know it yet...
~travail:icontravail: Nov 9, 2005, 6:11:51 PM
Tess,

You still use the icon I've provided for you!
I'm back, well ... sorta. Come and see me.

J.

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Driving down the 405 again.

:: photography
:: poetry
~tessuraea:icontessuraea: Oct 8, 2005, 11:40:41 AM
Hi! I check the site every half-year or so at this point... I never meant to vanish, but other things have taken up my life. I'm doing well. How are you?

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I believe in nothing; everything is sacred.
I believe in everything; nothing is sacred.
~PenWieldingPoets:iconPenWieldingPoets: Sep 14, 2005, 3:37:18 PM
~PenWieldingPoets is a newly formed community for poets that use meter.
If you use meter, or would like to learn, please drop by!

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Metrical poets of the world: Unite!
~alenia:iconalenia: Jun 10, 2005, 4:29:06 AM
I noticed you were on recently. Wanted to pop by and say hello. Well then, hello.

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There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
-T.S. Elliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
`sya:iconsya: Apr 19, 2005, 6:40:47 AM
Thanks for the fav's hunny! Haven't heard from you in quite some time. How are things?

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"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it truly is, infinite." -William Blake
*jemstone:iconjemstone: Apr 6, 2005, 7:31:28 AM
Heh, yes, yes it does. I've known him since Junior High, believe it or not. :)
~tessuraea:icontessuraea: Apr 6, 2005, 5:49:52 AM
I like your stuff, by the way, and we should talk poetry sometime... It looks like we have a mutual friend, too.

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I believe in nothing; everything is sacred.
I believe in everything; nothing is sacred.
*jemstone:iconjemstone: Apr 4, 2005, 5:29:32 PM
*poke* Hey! Dropping by, like I said I would! :)
*inlezorn:iconinlezorn: May 1, 2004, 11:15:10 AM
You have been watching me for one year today, thank you:hug:

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......when life loses its meaning.........start killing those that made it that way........:stab:
~tessuraea:icontessuraea: Feb 5, 2004, 10:26:00 AM
I apologize for not being around.... winter does that to me. Hello!

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I believe in nothing; everything is sacred.
I believe in everything; nothing is sacred.
~justb:iconjustb: Dec 12, 2003, 2:05:33 AM
Hey, How are you doing? I wanted to pay you some attention, hopefully I'll invoke a response. :)

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"I've taken enough walks alone
to know how real nothing is."
~dystopian-dream-girl
`sya:iconsya: Sep 29, 2003, 5:51:13 AM
thank you so much for your thoughtful praise and critism, and also for adding " To Make a Bed and Lie in It" to your favorites!

You may use the form anytime. It is a varient of a French Ballade.
:)

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"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it truly is, infinite." -William Blake
~atacuivel:iconatacuivel: Jul 26, 2003, 8:52:55 PM
Yay, Sophie's World rocks!
God, I thought I was the only person in the world who actually enjoyed Kant. We must be seriously messed up, haha! ;) (Wink)
Spectacular poems... wow.
~alenia:iconalenia: Jun 25, 2003, 5:45:58 PM
thanks for the very helpful comment on Sur la Plage de Normandie. For once someone's being more specific!

Heart

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There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
-T.S. Elliot, The Love Poem of J. Alfred Prufrock
:iconpoetic-forms: :iconalenia-stock:

my gurus:
:icontessuraea::iconprevail::i conaztecrose:
~prevail:iconprevail: May 28, 2003, 9:53:42 AM
TESS!
I Heart YOU!

Oh, and I'm not a public person, and I am PISSED that you left that eyesore of a comment on my page! What am I going to DO with you?!

:) (Smile)
XOXO
-J
~alenia:iconalenia: May 26, 2003, 10:06:01 AM
oopsy, I meant w00t!

stupid me... mixing up woot and w00t... I must work on knowing 1337 now...

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I'm a big girl now!
:iconpoetic-forms: :iconalenia-stock:
~alenia:iconalenia: May 26, 2003, 10:04:06 AM
Hello! Thankyee for the comments! Hug

A pantoum definately has to do with repetition. The second and fourth lines of a stanza become the first and third lines of the next stanza. I'll do the write-up thingie on them at some point. =) (Smile)

I know that my sestina gets weak at that point. I was writing and suddenly became aggravated at the poem so just stopped with the iambic pentameter. Maybe I'll fix it up someday, but the whole story started to confuse me, and the repetition of the word "run". I'll give it another go, because now that form is my challenge! Oh, I'm glad you like those two lines because they are actually the lines I worked hardest on. :woot!:

I love the myth of icarus too! as you can see... Love

Thank you again! I love your comments!

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I'm a big girl now!
:iconpoetic-forms: :iconalenia-stock:
~prevail:iconprevail: May 23, 2003, 11:54:48 AM
Tess,

You joined! Woo hoo!

Can't wait to see your sonnet submission ...
:) (Smile)
~alenia:iconalenia: May 23, 2003, 11:37:11 AM
you are cool. lol. =) (Smile)

thanks for joining and the comments! Hug

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There may be no spoon, but is there a :spork:?
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