, and then the astronomer looked up at the stars and forgot everything.
Kill the Textbook
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Cameron Winter
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I think that when he looks at pianos,
The keys are stained and worn in
With grooves and dents,
In the shapes of his fingerprints,
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The Eldest Game
ghosts of peo / ple hiding in this house / they grew up in and left / hiding under tables in clo / sets long thin men pale pe / ople dark people all hidden / separately in the same room / waiting for the seeker to finis / h counting endlessly endl
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Portrait of a Man Looking Back
He can see kids glowing in the kitchen,
Hands sticky with sweet gossip,Bright, beautiful little selves smudged by the window that he,
A cracked old statue has broken his hands and fingers by banging on,
Comments
would you believe me if i said it took me 10 days of reading this back to myself to understand what you meant and how good it is? because it did i've literally been staring at this for over a week ;)
Thank you so much! It's definitely a more cryptic one, but I think anyone who's ever been fed up with a can get it eventually.
totally!
I clicked on this, expecting a longer poem, but it is short and I can still see the meaning in it and that amazes me. All my poetry tends to ramble, and I over explain and I never know where to end it. You don't and that is part of why I feel so drawn to your poetry. You are quite lovely. keep writing! <3
Thanks very much! It's funny - I often find writing long pieces a struggle, because my brain just wants to condense everything into as tiny a paragraph as possible.
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