Inspiration point (IP)

Our new Inspiration Point, with grateful thanks to SoulFire77 for the suggestion:

"The Thing You Kept... But Shouldn't Have." This could be a physical object, memory, or an inherited trait.

Poetry or prose, fact or fiction. Good luck!

Inspiration point

bruise berry

bruise berry sipping wine through bruised berry lips, teeth bared moon yellow in wincing appreciation, he exhales slow grape. the amount in the glass...

Xerocoles* (IP)

*(a term some seem to use for animals adapted to live in the desert – with the heat and scarcity of water) … The desert lizard goes, too fast to burn its toes …

The Heat of the Desert I.P.

In the coolness of the night, millions of jewelled stars sparkle; embroidered on a blackened canvas, but when comes the rising rays of light...images...
Cherry

The Heat of the Desert (I.P.)

"They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars – stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places." Robert Frost

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