Sailing Hippos
Sailing Hippos
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Stasis in darkness. 
Then the substanceless blue.
 Pour of tor and distances.  

God's lioness, 
How one we grow, Pivot of heels and knees! -- The furrow 

Splits and passes, sister to 
The brown arc 
Of the neck I cannot catch,  

Nigger-eye Berries cast dark Hooks --  
Black sweet blood mouthfuls, 
Shadows.
Something else
Hauls me through air -- 
Thighs, hair; 
Flakes from my heels.  

White
Godiva, I unpeel--
Dead hands, dead stringencies. 

And now I
Foam to wheat, a glitter of seas. 
The child's cry  

Melts in the wall. 
And I
Am the arrow, 

The dew that flies
Suicidal, at one with the drive
Into the red 
 
Eye, the cauldron of morning.  
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Marina-
Marina is kinda cool, it depends on if she is talking or not. She likes writing, and is really good at it, especially poetry. She sees people's auras, which is pretty awesome. However, don't piss her off, because then she can put a Bosnian curse on you. She also plays soccer, and is going pro at some point in her life.

Ben-
Ben is the runt of the Hippos. He's often picked on and abused by his "larger" siblings. He is amazing at everything he does, besides being nice, because he is an arrogant son of a hippo. He has an unquenchable thirst for water, which is good, because we live in water. He doesn't know how to put on eyeliner, but it doesn't matter...because he's a guy. We hope.
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