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<\/p>\n“Icarus and the Sun, Pt. 1”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Based on the art of Gabriel Picolo<\/p>\n
He met her at the darkest hour,
\nand even in her flickering light,
\nshe was brighter than any fire.
\n\u201cWhy are you here?\u201d asked Icarus.
\n\u201cTo think,\u201d said the sun.
\n\u201cAbout what?\u201d
\n\u201cNothing.\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m troubled, too. Take a seat.\u201d<\/p>\n
He let her into his heart
\nthe way she let the moon takes her place
\n\u2014slowly, quietly, while he was sleeping.
\nCurled against her, her hair hot against his chest,
\nhis arms cocooned around her flames
\nand their fingers locked together in a searing hold.<\/p>\n
Sometimes he melted too much to handle, and he crept away in the quiet.
\nShe dimmed without him.<\/p>\n
It took longer for her to do the same.
\nShe\u2019d said, \u201cLet me in.\u201d
\nHe’d asked, \u201cCan I?\u201d
\nFor forever, it seemed, she had her back to him,
\ntoo busy in her own starless world,
\nin her memories and the black hole in her chest.
\nShe finally turned around,
\nand her world twinkled once more.<\/p>\n
She was a rose-tinted mirror.
\nIn her presence, she mended him.
\nShe turned his bare roots into wings
\nand his marks into wax.
\nHe told her once.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve got scars that can\u2019t be seen.\u201d
\nShe shook her head and kissed his cheek
\nand the wax melted.<\/p>\n
They had doubts.<\/p>\n
Once, when she felt calm enough not to burn,
\nhe let her into the greenhouse.
\nShe saw the words written on the short, prickly things.
\nLifting \u201cPuzzled\u201d into her hands, she asked.
\n\u201cMy own fears and demons,\u201d said Icarus.
\n\u201cI get acquainted with them.\u201d
\nHe showed her a few.
\n\u201cLonely\u201d\u2014introspective, but likes new things.
\n\u201cAnxious\u201d\u2014not talkative, but sincere when needed.
\n\u201cOverthinker\u201d\u2014an asshole.
\nHe did not show her the one tucked in the corner.
\n\u201cLove\u201d\u2014never watered.<\/p>\n
Once, as they walked through the darkest hour,
\nthe sun said, \u201cYou don\u2019t want me.\u201d
\n\u201cWhy not?\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019ll hurt you.\u201d
\nShe told him how they\u2019d travel over flatlands to distant hills,
\nto chase the moon.
\nHe thought that was stupid.
\nHe loved it
\nand ignored her unspoken plea.
\n\u201cDon\u2019t get too close to me. I\u2019ll burn you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Icarus and the Sun, Pt. 1” Based on the art of Gabriel Picolo He met her at the darkest hour, and even in her flickering light, she was brighter than any fire. \u201cWhy are you here?\u201d asked Icarus. \u201cTo think,\u201d said the sun. \u201cAbout what?\u201d \u201cNothing.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m troubled, too. Take a seat.\u201d He let her … Continue reading “Icarus and the Sun, Pt. 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,7,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}