Adolescence | P.K. Page

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In love they wore themselves in a green embrace.
A silken rain fell through the spring upon them.
In the park she fed the swans and he
whittled nervously with his strange hands.
And white was mixed with all their colours
as if they drew it from the flowering trees.

At night his two finger whistle brought her down
the waterfall stairs to his shy smile
which like an eddy, turned her round and round
lazily and slowly so her will
was nowhere — as in dreams things are and aren't.

Walking along avenues in the dark
street lamps sang like sopranos in their heads
with a violence they never understood
and all their movements when they were together
had no conclusion.

Only leaning into the question had they motion;
after they parted were savage and swift as gulls.
asking and asking the hostile emptiness
they were as sharp as partly sculptured stone
and all who watched, forgetting, were amazed
to see them form and fade before their eyes.

Comments

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Hi there -- can you please edit this post to match the default LJ font, as per the community rules? If you don't know how, here's some info. Thanks.

The formatting is because you're using the Rich Text editor. (There are two ways to make an LJ post, through the Rich Text editor, or the HTML editor.)

Try this:

Copy the whole entry.
Click the edit post link.
There are two tabs at the top right of the entry box. Click the HTML one.
Delete everything in the box and paste the poem in.
Make sure the Disable Auto-Formatting box (upper right) is NOT checked.
Click save entry.

This will mean only the text, with no fonts or formatting, is posted to the community. In the future, using the HTML editor should prevent you from having problems.

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Oh, so that's how you do it!
Thanks for the info. Is that better? I'll go back and fix my other entries as well. :)

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Looks great! So glad it was helpful!