So it took longer to format this than to write it! Ah, well. Inspired by a version of Rachelle and Justus that will never be, as they’ve been commandeered by the Kingdoms and Thorn world. A bit of romance, en brief.
Liana Mir
Liana Mir reads, writes, and wrangles the muses from her mundane home in the Colorado Rockies and, occasionally, from the other side of the Barrier.
Series Listing
16 — 02. Summer
When the Clock Strikes Midnight
16 — 02. Summer through 03. Autumn
16 — 03. Autumn through 17 — 01. Spring
16 — 03. Late Autumn
16 — 03. Late Autumn
17 — 02. Summer
17 — 02. Summer
18 — 01. Spring
Song Between the Waking and the Dreaming
20 — 04. Winter
21 — 01. Spring
Don’t Remind Me That It’s Over
21 — 02. Summer
21— 02 Summer through 22 — 01 Spring
Name Me Another (or Glass Angel, Redux)
22 — 01. Spring
22 — 01. Spring
22 — 02. Summer
22 — 03. Autumn
23 — 02. Summer
23 — 02. Summer
History Lesson on the Night Train
23 — 03. Autumn
23 — 03. Autumn
23 — 03. Autumn
23 — 03. Autumn
23 — 03. Autumn
23 — 04. Winter
23 — 04. Winter
24 — 02. Summer
AU 21 — 04. Winter
Normal written in coffee grounds
Normal written in coffee grounds
The way you leaned over the bar / foaming milk, whipped and creamed / eyes intense, and called me barista
AU 21 — 04. Winter
Kingdoms and Thorn Romantic
Poem
Kingdoms and Thorn Romantic
Poem
coffee winter
Normal is
The day you stepped inside the glass
black coffee burbling in the maker
was fogged and bitter cold
bitter grounds releasing rich aroma
reading summer
Normal is
The day you walked inside my door
your hand warm against my waist
was heated summer fragrance
imprinted pattern burned into my skin
coffee winter
Normal is
The way you leaned over the bar
foaming milk, whipped and creamed
eyes intense, and called me barista
the swirl of blackness and white
reading summer
Normal is
The way you wrote on my body
books crowding the bed and chairs
eyes intense, and asked me what you wrote
laughter forming words into life
coffee winter
Normal is
The day you sat at table five
chocolate dark and semisweet crumbled
and made it yours for winter
into the bitterness, changing it
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Kingdoms and Thorn Romantic
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I love this. Love the back-and-forth, the story-within-a-story, and the multiple POVs.
:hugs: This is my favorite poem I've ever written I think, and I'd begun to think I was the only one who loved it. Thank you for telling me. It makes my day.