-mb Female • 23 • Pittsburgh, PA • United States

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Status... Single
Orientation... Straight
I'm into... Writing Love Mind
I'm working on... school, which means writing to please everyone else but myself. and poetry to please me. life.

"Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love"

Last On: 07/04/08 PST

About me

i am currently working toward my m.a. in english after 2 1/2 year spent as a creative writing student. i consider myself a prose writer, but i fake poetry and can't seem to write anything else. i'm in love with indesign and those who know all its tricks. i'm not sure what is so dazzling and exicting about page design. i am an idealist and am still shocked every time i'm disappointed - luckily i'm also a die hard optimist. i like writing, people, movies, etc. that are quirky and delightfully strange. surprise me with something i will never expect and i will never forget.

Interests

general.

,empty notebooks and ball point pens. firework displays. firefly murders. touch. bank of america. 4.0s. scandal. sleeping with the windows open. auburn nursing home toast. ny. the perfect make out. singledom. marginalia. soap operas. fiyero pants. cheatue st. jean chardonnay. naked norwegian parks. broken dishwashers and coffee pots. sincerity. dead fishys. believeing daydreams. july. floods. the crack mecca of buffalo. tenderness. dimples. coffee at noon. thinking pens.,

music.

,matt nathanson. ben kweller. goo goo dolls. ted leo and the pharmacists. the format.,

movies.

,bonnie and clyde. gone with the wind. now and then. into the wild. the english patient. the french lieutenant's woman. a clockwork orange. lolita. i'm not there. conversations with other women.,

good reads.

,top 8 must reads:

.the lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven
.east of eden
.one hundred years of solitude
.les miserables
.love medicine
.crime and punishment
.lamb the gospel according to biff,christ's childhood pal
.walden,

[ view all ]21 COMMENTS

Jul 01, 2008 - 01:44 PM PST

spike

-mb

hey this is spike your writing is very good. what type of music do you like.I like to read goosebumps ,listen to hiphop& heavy metal,eat chinse food or pizza. Tell me more about you and what you to do.

Jun 21, 2008 - 02:51 PM PST

sydnq

milke out the nose funny

Jun 08, 2008 - 07:03 AM PST

Edmonds2007

-mb

Thanks for your kind comment,the subject in this drawing was very close to me and I've drawn countless pictures of her. Excuse my tartiness in responding to you.

Jun 03, 2008 - 12:01 PM PST

Edmonds2007

Our good fortune that your effort to please others provides us with this little gem,a real laugh out loudder!!

Apr 03, 2008 - 11:44 AM PST

castrophony

Goosebumps!!!

Mar 26, 2008 - 01:23 PM PST

puddle_smudges

this one i know was in the Prelude. Always a favorite as well. I remember you reading this almost a year ago at the publication party. I like how all the "sirs" look like they belong there, instead of just randomly stuck in at places, which might have been the case had you not continued that repetition of other phrases within your lines.

Mar 26, 2008 - 01:19 PM PST

puddle_smudges

"toads were never my favorite unless nestled in the fols of your back"

great. line.

Mar 26, 2008 - 01:17 PM PST

puddle_smudges

this has always been one of my favorites. nursing homes are always great places for poetry.

and good for you for keeping isthmus in!

Mar 26, 2008 - 01:15 PM PST

puddle_smudges

i'm pretty sure i've read this one before, but i don't think it was in the Prelude, was it? I like the image of the cherrio-powdered lips. and the sniffs and snorts, the oat-spewing and the not washed sheets really give us the image of somebody not too appealing, but we can see the speaker thinks otherwise.

Mar 26, 2008 - 01:12 PM PST

puddle_smudges

this made me want to bite my nails. or smoke crack. very powerful image of her as a white orb, and i love the line about her sucking on the rug tassels. i love your mind.

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S o m a t a

Mar 10, 2008

I want to taste peridot and lace appliqué,
the arches in Arles, let the Strand
stomp over each taste bud –
bitter on the way to bewitching –
lick along the dorsum, ready flexed.

I want to smell the midnight red
from each lunar eclipse, a world
naked in updraft, the unwind,
inside, pressed against the hard palate,
clung to arms of almond paste.

I want to hear the yellow softness
sizzle and sigh with golden fingers
that slide across the pinna, balance,
vibrate, and safe against a too bright
fog and fade among unforgotten funnels.

I want to touch the center of 4 a.m.,
after palms emptied of slippery charm,
between the spaces of metacarpal and ulna,
fingers that sift through surprasternal grooves,
loose with new endings worn like nakedness.