Posts
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wanting, without direction
today's air tastes like berries
and overused metaphors. the shadows run
across golden ground, and i look
at our old stone wall like they would in farmers' days.
a boundary, a gate
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Forever Hold Her Peace
inspired by "Roselily" by Alice Walker
Someone has painted smog across the sky
And made her hands soft–
No more sewing needles or thorny flowers
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October 20th
There is nothing like the floating feeling of trying to do pilates in socks and listening to Cigarettes After Sex as your knees scrape against the carpeted floor and the almost-black almost-night clings to the windows.
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i'll laugh at this someday
"I have a feeling, a terrible fear encroaching
That I'll never love a boy
The way I love the ocean."
-Maya Hawke, "To Love a Boy"
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i pledge allegiance
i hate watching
you. i hate the blood
that pumps underneath your right hand
and runs through you red and thick and salty--
i hate your stubborn lips, mouthing
every
word.
i wish i didn't wonder
Loves
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The West Wind
The West Wind is a banker in a smart navy suit and a tie. His dress shoes clack on the pavement; he’s got someplace to be, always someplace to be, rushing to the sidewalk, the subway, the elevator, checking his gold Rolex watch.
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Limerence (part one)
Limerence:
A strong infatuation with the desire for reciprocation of one’s feelings. -
I don’t remember
I don’t remember
Was it real life or a dream?
Looked back; I was gone
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i think i used to look up this street and dream
False memories might betray me but,
i think i used to look up this street, and dream,
dream about becoming one with the pavement
where the road met the sunlight
I could almost taste the harshness,
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I really do smile more, don't I?
I like to think I smile more when autumn comes
I caught myself grinning out the window
Trees back home don’t look like that, so full
A tree skirt has a Christmas connotation
But the middle of October brings its own
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Vertigo
Body nested in the damp grass,
the sky gazes over my skin.
Feet pulled by the still stars
while the earth keeps racing.