Shifting Gears

This is now Doomed Planet. Hope you enjoy it, no?

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Well, I'm not particularly happy with the NaNoWroMo project I've begun. I may have to start over, or scrap it. I want to work on the novel I've already finished, because I have a way to fix it, I think. So maybe nothing will appear here for awhile. Or maybe it will. Hard to say. Check back soon, if you like, but if I don't post, hey, I never promised you a nose garden.

Eight

Up, over, around, up, over, around, up, over, around. What is this thing? You could watch it all day.

But attacked, blindsided, over, around. You are.

Who would do this? A brother? A sister? You are floating upward. Upward. Carried air into air. Carried divine into nothingness and light. Carried upward over into air, look! Look at you! Look at this world! To there and there and there! Infinite in it's discovery! Boxes! Worlds unknown.

A face. To lick. To lick and lick and my, how love. How very yum.

Seven

More hands. People hands. More light. And touch strongly. What? Yes you do like that but please. Oh, tasty. People are tasty, aren't they? You do like that. Yes. And tasty. Lick and bite. Though not bite. Can you resist bite? Cannot resist bite. Bite and lick and happy yes. You do like that. You do like people hands. You do like to bite and lick and bite people hands. And arms and faces. Bite people noses. People noses do not like biting. Do not always like licking but sometimes laugh, great guffawing laughing laughter. Great guffawing giddy happiness. Great dogs, these people. They are high and wide and able to perform miracles. Look at you. So high. Lifted. No mother is able to lift you so high as this. How they use these hands. These enormous and fabulous and tasty hands. Such warmth and giggle. Such salt and sweet. Such love. Such new love like you do not know love. Such new love from other dogs like people. Such new people. Who are these people? So many people. They do not harm you. They set you down. Down to earth. Near mother. Near milk. For more milk. For more mother. For more warmth. For more love. Motherlove.

Six

How many days since you first saw that light? One? More than one? Many more than one?

Could be two.

Or more than two. Or could have been slightly more than just a moment ago. That light is. That happy and brightness and just say what you want to say, just hold that light. Can you hold that light? What is it? Where is it coming from? Can you keep it?

You cannot keep it. The light. Disappears. When you least expect. When you.

Darkness. And mother, and then darkness again.

Where did that light go? How many days has it been since you last saw that light?

Five

Different. Hands. Warm, holding, warm but, mother. Where is mother? Where is yes, is mother there. Is there. Up with warmth in hands, but down again to mother. A new smell. A new place. In hands. In warmth in a place in a rising and whole place contained, without, with a new and smell this what is it? Who is it? Not your mother. No. Where? There. Mother and will she stop and lay and not just for a moment but long enough to drink. Long enough to fight for milk. Long enough to forget hands, to forget the rising motion, the hands and scent and sound of breathing, a different breath.

Four

You wake. You roll. You bite. That's it. That's it. Your brotherbite. He bite you roll and bite. You biteback. You pounceback. Sister pounce and brother pounce and biteback. You roll. You pounce and mother--enough--mothersay. As she would have it you move away. Just a breath away and pounceback. Not enough. Not today. Bite and pounce and roll over. Brotherback. Missing. Something. Someone. Where? Missing something. Touch and--

Milk!

You and you milk yourmilk. Easy easy easy easy. Must be late. Must be so so late. Must be past time for your nap. Must nap. Must, easy easy easy easy. Must sleep. More but sleep. Easy but sleep. Easy easy easy--

Sleep.

Three

Reverse up roll, up!

Hello. Bite yes ouchbite! Bite yes and bite bite ouchbite biteouch! Youbite biteyou and bite you yes! Yes and youbite and you you you, where is it?

There. There it is and jump. And jump and hello. And hello and roll and yes. And mother and yes and milk and mother and hello, a word, milk, and mother and yes that's mother and you--

Milk. Yes and milk. And mother and milk. And milk and mother and milk. And mother and yes and mothermilk. And mother and sleepymilk and mother and brother says milk and mothermilk and rolling and side and sleep. Sleepymilk mothermilk and yes and sleep.

Roll and quiet and surround, shush this darkworld.

Two

Nothing is happening! Nothing is happening nothing is happening nothing is happening! Nothing! You!

You you you you you you you you you.

Sleep.

Rolling rolling air rolling air taste milk up up, rolling air rolling you. Awake nothing is happening nothing is happening nothing is happening nothing is there! There it is! There there there!

Ouch, that, ouch, there!

Sleep.

One

You.