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Cough

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Submitted by Usagi on Fri, 07/16/2010 - 11:13am

woke(?) to campus streetlights
rose & dropped & coughed into my hands
all blurs of blue & black this paint
this light
this liquid night in droplets in my palms
fingers
lungs

held my breath til I could breathe

stood leaning on the windowstill
gulping night humidity & hoping
emerge whole from 3 a.m.

a pair of lungs on legs

a pair of dripping eyes

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Beautiful!

Submitted by olive911 on Sun, 07/18/2010 - 8:57pm.

I liked the mix of imagery and metaphors. I also liked woke(?)
A living dream... maybe?

"I you switch the letters 'i' and 'o' around in Olive, it reads i-love."
-The Twenty-Fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee