Bells Smetek

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“The giedd of us two together” by Bells Smetek

Submitted to Contest #276

for K. He is introduced in the most bizarre way possible.“He’s you, but different,” my partner says. Ages later, there is this incredible pain. Ages before, a single stranded figure cries out on an empty island, “Eadwacer!” I knew that story from before. It didn’t make any sense and it was delightful in it. How countless scholars tried to understand the Old English verses, only to come up with nothing, with possibilities and doubts, and question marks. I love it dearly, for the very love of contrariness. * And so, he is introduced. We sit do...

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they/them writer of prose and poetry, and everything in-between. yogi. also known as seriobells here and there.