Poetry #1 - Food Pains

Lately I've noticed that my poetry has been resembling, well, a cookbook and a medicine cabinet.

This past month I have been going on a Paleo Vegetarian diet. I know, I know, they said that couldn't be done! That you have to eat meat to be on a "paleo" diet. Well, yeah I guess that's sort of true but this whole thing started when I read this piece of work and realized that my over all diet was looking very "Taco Bell". I'm sorry but when you use "Taco Bell" as an adjective for your current eating habits then it's time for that diet, girlfriend.
So, Luke and I buckled down and threw away everything in our fridge and pantry that wasn't "paleo friendly". I felt like one of those poor saps on What Not To Wear, longly looking at their clothes (in my case, food) while Stacy and Clinton toss it into the fiery pit of Mount Doom which is the garbage can.
The first week was hard (not to mention I got my Vegetarian Times almost EXACTLY the next day after we started the diet). I found that I was losing sleep because I was so hungry for bread, milk and sweets and during the day I realized that I was depending on food to keep me comfortable while I wrote. I had recently read in my new Writers & Poets magazine (July/August 2013) that it was important not to get too comfortable with certain habits that you may THINK can help you write better. I cannot find the exact quote for the life of me right now... either way, it made me realize that I could be just as inspired to write when I am uncomfortable (you know, starving!).
Here are a few of my babies that I created:

Eat (2013)
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eat
offer it to the Doc
the grease in my head, the memory loss
the disease.
pre-pubic, baby body
floating face down in canned pop!
Her stomach, her lungs
filled with good intentions
eat and drown, you pink pimple
eat

The Root (2013)
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Daily doses, everyday in my tea, of
lavender, valerian and white noise.
Add a few drops to my brain and bring
symptoms of late-night lovemaking to my heart.
Slow my activity - I'm a dreaming insomniac -
decibals of waves flow over my head.
Soothing, repetitive snowy lights...
snowy whites...
drift and advise me before bedtime.
I start to ease into a sleeping death
just before the sun rises.

Nude Milk (2013)
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My beauty ritual
crush my fairy circle
under my eyes and under my feet.
Radiant, skin so bare
Sweet, black fruit air
So my soul's nudity
sweats nature's cleansing milk
polishing tea stained teeth and heart beat
Organic, tablespoon brave
Glow, smooth flesh grave

My Oven (2013)
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A quick and easy free meal.
Keep a sharp eye out and
direct his heart towards my oven.
The same concentrated flowers
roast and caramelize inside; technique
broils the fraction of time.
I set the temperature to 'intense'.
I get good cooking results every time.

Egg & Oyster (2013)
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Sea oyster, sweet, salty stretching
Coffee grinder - stuffed with skin
bright and pink and soaked now
in red - pepper blood
eggs cooking - fried, over hard
Ocean kitchen, baby sheers
SNIP SNIP
Chop it up and cut it off - coffee grinder
sprinkle the flakes in our hands.
How I'll heal after this
I will never know.

THANKS FOR READING!

Hello! from Sylvie- Lou Lestrade!

Hello!

I am so excited about this creative collective blog that my good friends and I have started together. What a great way for the four of us to stay in touch as well as share our thoughts, hopes and dreams! This is a test post until we all figure out how this new blog will work. What fun! What adventure!

- Sylvie

Gotta start somewhere!

This is a test post! i'm going to delete it as soon as I figure out how everything falls on the wix page.

yes this picture is officially a year old. but it's my favorite one still. no my hair is not still that color. no i don't still have the monroe piercing. BUT I still wear those ray bans every single day. And those headphones. Hard to believe they haven't given up yet.

so perks of blogger: we can imbed video and photos, and it has spell check. wix has none of those things.
perks of wix: we can have multiple pages, for various content if we decide to split up our posts (seems silly) and for contact / bios / those things that make a website feel real and navigational. blogger has those, but they're flimsy at best.

now the real test - how's it look? thoughts?