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A GIRL-ISH Retrograde
TWO GIRLS sit on the slanted rooftop of
a suburban house on the Amish hillside,
ignoring the jargoning mosquitos
buzzing around their heads and spectating the -
Wrighteous Wrens
Darling hatched from fragile stone
chirping nakedly in your infancy;
you will not be a suitable daughter.
You will not be angelic or saintly
as you barely raise a pious wing. -
Chasing Tail
You kissed me like how you eat
apples with mundanity and matte eyes.
Your bra clasp is a cracked wishbone
held by a child’s birthday prayer. -
Horse Corpse
So large and gentle, you were
a special sort of worker.
Strong from weathered weary,
braving the wearied weather. -
An Ineffable Sestina
Ultimately, she will be served
on her stained bed of silver,
placed on the table of a rich man
with an apple in her mouth
forced into a glazed dress
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She Still Knows
I do not remember when we were young
or how large the world once seemed,
this is one of the things only she knew.
Loves
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Christ, or God, or Whatever or Whomever
People’s ideas of Christ here are small, frivolous, watered down with weak will. I could (and have) watch (-ed) Jesus’s (God’s?
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When my hair is a halo in the air
I love trampolines.
I love feeling my strong legs push into the balls of my feet push against the resistance of the springs just before they shoot me into the air.
I love the short time where I am flying higher and higher.
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about she.
she has short and messy dyed red hair
she has dark brown eyes that glow in sunlight
she is silent
she is a good friend
she has fading signed shoes
she is nice
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Miss You
I miss you like I miss my childhood and good God,
I think it's because that's what you were.
You were a childhood fantasy and now you are gone
we're
two teenagers who don't look when we pass in the hall
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diaspora
there is a crack in the eye of man
like glass, the light in the fracture
is split like the millions who came before it
never to reform
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What Happened?
Do you still remember me?
After all these hours that turned into days
That turned into months then years
Do you still remember?