Purple paper
Purple paper ripped out of my notebook
you're beautiful in all the ways
it says in my purple fountain pen
I taught my sister how to hold the pen
and she wrote me the note
Poetry
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Perfect
You’re perfect just the way you are,
but here’s a serum for that scar.
Love yourself, embrace your face,
but first, some contouryou know, just in case.
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uncertainty —> hope
I wasn’t sure
how many people would be there
it wasn't the biggest protest in the state,
the one that we went to, that is.
we think
about
(at least)
500
people came.
5
0
0
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She Cries Too
She is filled with more beauty than anything else
She is made in the very image of God
She is crafted by His hands, formed and fixed to be divine
She holds flowers and bugs and skies
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poster board signs/attend all the protests
the permanent marker squeaks across the page black sharpie mimic the scream rage & awareness & hands off hands off hands OFF MY BODY you call this democracy?
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four years
i sit and stare out the window
stare out the window at the brown dead grass
the dirty snow melting into muddy slush
the mud that is criss-crossed and destroyed with ruts and tire tracks
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Oh Carbine Cows Come Home
There's a haze out in the meadow before the cattle graze,
settled slow and clean and shining like a glaze,the cattle move on in as the dew begins to dry,
the haze clears up fast like a tear in the eye. -
They Ask Me
The little kids
Ask for advice.
"What's middle school like? Seventh grade?"
They ask what to do and
Where to go and
What they should prepare for.
I could give them a list
Like my teachers gave me.
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Night Machine
Downstairs in the kitchen
Stars are great wheels in a machine sky.
Heaven is above in the metal dome.
You pour yourself a cup of Water.
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Counting backwards
I'll push my dull heart down
Anytime you need me to
And you'll never hear me
Beg you under my breath
Not to leave me
You looked at me
Like I'm a horrible
Burden just now
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All that you must give
If you give her salvation
She will rest a long time
She will seek in you
What you can never find
If you give her your soul
She will be true
She will live and love -
Mother Nature
Let me go back to the mountains
Back to the trees
Back to the forest who once mothered me