mweston314 is not currently reading any books.
I’m male. I’ve been a DailyLit member since March 19, 2009. My reading interests include Narrative Non-Fiction, and Graphic / Literary / Short Fiction.
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Reader Challenges - 6 Word Autobiography
Could not stay in one place.
Etc. - Question of the Week #19: Favorite Poems
Walt Whitman's "To a Stranger." Perfect blend of wonder and longing and unreasonable certainty.
Passing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me
as of a dream,)
I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate,
chaste, matured,
You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me,
I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours
only nor left my body mine only,
You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you
take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or
wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
Etc. - 50 Word Challenge
In my dream I'm at a bar, a booth in back. I'm wearing a suit and have my arm around a woman whose face I never see. But her hair and scent play off the curls of Clove cigarette smoke. I wake with my hand raised, asking for the check.