GabrielGadfly

Gabriel

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Bottle of Sadness by GabrielGadfly, literature

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Bottle of Sadness

Your little red mouth is a bottle of sadness and you think you keep it stoppered up, but the cork is cracked and the seal is loose and you drip little splashes of sorrow every time you speak. In the morning, I wake next to your wet sheets, your pillow soaked through with it. It smudges on the rims of glasses you drink from, it tastes of salt and dusk and blue on your lips and even when you laugh, it boils away and steams in the air -- the room fills with fog, you stop laughing again. I used to think you had only liters in you, but some days I think you have the whole deep sea.

Cryptography by GabrielGadfly, literature

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Cryptography

I cannot talk to you right now. I can't part my lips and spill conversations out: the sentences grow barbs, my mouth doesn't work, my tongue seizes up, and the words catch. I am choking on them and I can't spit them out. The only way I can speak to you is in code. I have to tell you that I am growing moth wings, that the deep blue Atlantic is writhing under my ribs, that the butterflies in my stomach are trying to bite their way out and I am swallowing bottlefuls of hornets to sting them quiet. That I have stopped being a man and have started being a pillar of salt trying to learn how to rain dance. That I am eating smok

All Blue by GabrielGadfly, literature

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All Blue

I am happy when I am with you and also sick sad. I am all blue in the middle. There are rainstorms in my belly and my mouth is full of fog. Wet moss creeps into the spaces between my cobblestones, but I love you, and you make the rainstorms the kind the sun shines through, and you make the fog the cool mist of morning, and you make the moss bright green and the softest I have ever felt but I am still all blue in the middle of me.

Cotton by GabrielGadfly, literature

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Cotton

I spent days trying to write the perfect letter for you. I wrote and scratched out words. I crumpled paper until my floor started to think it was a cotton field, and I thought of inviting you to come pick through it, to see if you could find the softness I was trying to tell you about but I was too afraid your fingers would wear raw on the bolls, that you would grow tired of stooping to pick up the things I'd grown in my head so I put an empty envelope in your mailbox, and wrote Love me, please, on the outside, instead.

The Minotaur by GabrielGadfly, literature

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The Minotaur

You stand undressed in front of the mirror, and every time, you cast open the gates and step into your labyrinth of doubts, every time, into winding passages full of thorns and black brambles. You wander in just to scratch the itch of hating yourself. You pinch your hips, and squeeze your breasts and frown at yourself. You are looking for the minotaur, for the shaggy head and the bloody horns, for the muscle and fur that will put its knee into your back and break you. You poke the lines of your face, you wander the moss- frosted stones and pick your way through, you listen for his lowing, for his hooves stampin

What The Sea Spits Out by GabrielGadfly, literature

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What The Sea Spits Out

Every time you say you love seashells, I know what you mean is that you love conch and whelk and nautilus. That you love the broad fans of scallop shells, spiral mollusks, sea snails, white sand dollars like round suns, lying like jewels on the edge of the sea. I am a kind of seashell, too: a handful of color, sharp-edged grit, sea glass, sand, coral and whale bone, and shining, here and there, with mother of pearl.

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Bottle of Sadness by GabrielGadfly, literature

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All Blue

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Cotton

The Minotaur by GabrielGadfly, literature

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Artist // Professional // Literature

July 1
United States
Deviant for 15 years
adamkamerer.com
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Gabriel Gadfly is a poet from Alabama. Since 2009, he has published hundreds of poems online, building a readership through social media. He writes poems about love, humor, mental health, communication, and war, among many other topics.

He is the author of Bone Fragments and Ventricle, Atrium, a pair of poetry collections published by 1889 Labs. Both books are currently out of print. Plans are in progress to re-release both titles.

His work has appeared in Borderline!, Four & Twenty, Anatomy and Etymology, and Subtext Queer Arts Journal. Gabriel has spoken at libraries, universities, and schools across the southeast, including the University of Montevallo and Auburn University Montgomery.

He served as editor for Love Poems Deconstructed, a collaborative ebook poetry collection, alongside Jim Woods, Tammy Perlmutter, and Tim Gallen.

Favourite Writers

Khalil Gibran, Nazir Qabbani, Sherod Santos, Yusef Komunyakaa, Pablo Neruda, Samuel Peralta

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Social change, activism, photography

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GabrielGadfly

Feb 3, 2017

Getting back into the swing of things. I'll be posting new poetry soon. As always, you can find the full collection of my work at http://gabrielgadfly.com

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GabrielGadfly

Jan 6, 2013

Hey watchers, quick question.

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What's your favorite of the poems I've written?

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GabrielGadfly

Feb 16, 2012

I just finished up 'Wasp Nest'...

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a brand new poem that I'll be sending out to my newsletter subscribers on Saturday. I won't be posting that poem here on DeviantArt or on my website, so if you'd like to read it, you'll need to be a subscriber. Aside from free poetry in your inbox, I'll also send you the occasional email with announcements about upcoming stuff going on with my writing, pre-releases and special deals, and you'll be eligible to participate in subscriber-only giveaways and contests. At most, I'll email you 2-3 times a month. Don't miss out! Click here to subscribe to my newsletter.

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Defender-of-Man

Jan 26, 2015

Your gallery is absolutely incredible. Amazing work, sir.

nattrozanska

Dec 11, 2012

_{Thanks so much for the fave on 'falling'. I always get quite giddy happy whenever you like one of my pieces, makes me think I must be doing something right}

Grossenor

Nov 23, 2012

Thanks a lot for the fav!

You're welcome!

_{Thank you for the watch and the fave, sir
Pretty sure we stalk each other everywhere online now.}

Haha. Probably.

Your poetry is amazing. I love how you can take one tiny thought or concept and turn it into a poem and neither saying too much or too little about it. I think I shall be watching you.