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English
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Part 28 of North by Northwest: due South poems
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due South Seekrit Santa 2017, Due South Archive
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2017-12-31
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What They Have Been Learning, What They Will Learn

Summary:

Fraser and Kowalski learning about themselves, each other, and themselves in relationship to each other.

Notes:

A treat for dSSS pinch hitter verushka70, who asked for "angst with a happy ending" and dom/sub. I didn't quite hit those targets, but there is some working out of issues here and a soupçon of dom/sub.

The structure of this poem is tanka in five stanzas. Tanka is an unrhymed verse form of five lines made up of five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables, seven syllables, and seven syllables.

Work Text:

Ray has been learning
that this kind of love is a
dance done on broken
glass. Crash through warehouse windows
and crash through skylights, falling …

… falling for Fraser.
Ray has been learning that this
kind of love is a
non-swimmer swimming and not
drowning, both impossible

and true. Ray has been
learning that this kind of love
is topping from the
bottom, letting Fraser lead
just by letting Fraser lead.

And what is Fraser
learning? He is learning Ray,
learning the inner
poems, where control becomes
release …. where “you just have to

leap”, where “you’ve got to
trust your partner or nothing
will go right”. And what
they will learn together next
takes more than two hours to tell.

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