Ashe Vernon's Blog, page 156
September 1, 2015
Maybe it’s just me, but I really believe that the ‘breathtaking’ part of ‘breathtakingly beautiful’...
Maybe it’s just me, but I really believe that the ‘breathtaking’ part of ‘breathtakingly beautiful’ never has anything to do with looks.
You don’t suck the air out of a room by being pretty.
No–I think it has something to do with how they carry themselves. It’s that little glimpse of who they are. Maybe it’s because they seem so soft and gentle, or so unflinching and confident. Whatever it is, it’s unspoken: something in the line of their shoulders and the look in their eye.
It just knocks the wind out of you.
August 31, 2015
i am almost positive you wrote a poem with a set of lines that went something like "not a goddess anymore / but she still looks like religion in high heels". i had it bookmarked but lost it. if it's your poem, can you please direct me to it? thank you k
hi! I did write a poem with that line, but only a short quote from it (”she pins you to hotel doors, not a goddess anymore, but she still looks like religion in high heels. She kisses you godless. Whispers, “we dress like princesses to go out and kill kings.”) is available online. The full text of the poem can be found, exclusively, in my book Wrong Side of a Fistfight
"God knows there are enough hacks
Writing about the apocalypse.
That’s not the point.
This isn’t a..."
Writing about the apocalypse.
That’s not the point.
This isn’t a story about nuclear winter,
It’s about the way your mouth lit me up
Like a flash bomb
How I still can’t hear for the ringing in my ears.
This is how we’ve been furnishing our apartment
The way you dig out a bomb shelter—
Because sometimes love is an ugly thing
And sometimes you’re fighting for scraps
At what used to be the kitchen table.
But you keep going.
Because the world is red and bruised, outside
And there’s no way to go on surviving
If you aren’t holding someone’s hand.
.
Sometimes you’re the run-on sentence and you just have to keep running.
.
Maybe there’s a sunset and maybe I don’t want to see it.
Maybe this is the two of us
Shoved into a car your shoulders are too broad for,
Chasing down the sun across the curve of the earth.
Maybe this is how we forgot about the ocean
How we found ourselves on the warped glass
Of an unfriendly shoreline
With the moon on our backs
And the sun, a legend to tell our children at night.
This is not the kind of love story
They write about in children’s books.
We have always been something bigger
Darker and scarier.
You said you’d follow me to the end of the world,
And I spent my whole life reading Isaac Asimov.”
- To The Moon and Back, by Ashe Vernon
If you had to guess (or if you know), how many poems have you written/posted/published/whatever?
Oh gosh, um–I mean this is 100% a guess but?? 300?? Both of my books have had close to 50 and then I post plenty more online that never get put in my books so??? Yeah 200-300?
You've mentioned Texas in a few poems, and I was just wondering— do you live there?
Sure do. Texas born and raised.
latenightcornerstore:
lagomrf:
latenightcornerstore thank you,...
latenightcornerstore thank you, beautiful soul. This means the world.
I hope my little book keeps you company. I hope it keeps you warm
If anyone is interested in a signed copy of Belly of the Beast, email me at ashevernonpoetry@yahoo.com
FLASH SALE, if you mention this post in your email to me, I will include a FREE download code for my spoken word album!
latenightcornerstore:
Hey! If you emailed me about getting a signed copy of Belly of the Beast...
Hey! If you emailed me about getting a signed copy of Belly of the Beast don’t forget that you need to send the payment before I can mail you the book!
I have a whole stack of books with names on them that I would really love to send out to you but I can’t do that until I’ve got confirmation of payment!
Thanks, babes.
latenightcornerstore:
HEY GUYS, so here’s a cool thing: I...
HEY GUYS, so here’s a cool thing: I recorded a spoken word album a few months ago (click here).
The album is called Keeping Warm and it’s a collection of poems taken from both of my books. All of the tracks were recorded in a REAL SOUND BOOTH which means that they’re PROFESSIONAL QUALITY SOUND [pretty cool, right?]
The album is ‘pay what you can’ with a five dollar minimum, and you get 15 poems recorded by yours truly.
It would mean a lot to me if you guys could check it out! I put a lot of love into this little word-baby
