Fic: Nightingale (The Tiny Glass Bells Mash-Up) (Yami no Matsuei, Tsuzuki/Hisoka, PG-13)

Title: Nightingale (The Tiny Glass Bells Mash-Up)
Author: Brigdh
Rating/Warnings: PG-13, for inexplicit m/m sex.
Spoilers: None.
Summary: Of love and fairy tales. Tsuzuki/Hisoka.
Notes: Written for remix_redux (Remix V: Bigger, Longer and Uncut). The lovely and skilled ranalore wrote the original story, The Nightingale. Thanks to my beta, kessie, who was willing to look at this when I finished at the last minute. Further notes here.

( Nightingale (The Tiny Glass Bells Mash-Up) )

Remix Navel-Gazing

I always love to read about the processes other writers went through to produce their remix stories, so I thought I'd write up my own.

( Although, of course, you might prefer to scroll on by )

The last day of National Poetry Month

The Problem of Describing Color Robert Hass

If I said- remembering, in summer,
The cardinal's sudden smudge of red
In the bare gray winter woods-

If I said, red ribbon on the cocked straw hat
Of the girl with pooched-out lips
Dangling the wiry, black-nosed lapdog
In the painting by Renoir-

If I said fire, if I said blood welling from a cut-

Or flecks of poppy in the tar-grass-scented summer air
On a wind-struck hill outside Fano-

If I said, her one red earring dangles from her silky lobe,

If she tells fortunes with a deck of fallen leaves
Until it comes out right-

Rouged nipple, mouth-

(how could you not love a woman
who cheats at Tarot?)

Red, I said. Sudden, red.