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Bittersweet
Submission for next years challenges-
Write about something bittersweet, or a similar duality of feelings.
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Maybe They Don't
Do the penguins care
about the one with orange beaks, an extra stripe?
Do the giraffes mind
that his neck is longer, that she has less spots?
Because the humans do,
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Take a Moment
To you
you who lives among our rainbow hills--
green one moment
orange the next
and always blue in the distance--
you who lives along a river
you who lives looking into sunsets
you and you
Loves
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Yesterday
yesterday
to you i was nine years old
with a black hurley hat
that never left my head
the hat that you would take
and try to hold it far above
my reach knowing i could never get it -
Curl Cream
I have been told
To put curl cream in my hair
Upside down, eyes
Straining against the ceiling light,
Curls straining toward the tile floor,
Bunching.
I will smell
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The Great Similarity
We
Contain multitudes,
Infinite differences
And variations; it is
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my hair
my hair falls like clumps of tears
ready to be set free,
like chains held over my head.
i tied my hair into knots
of familial expectations,
the knot’s been untied,
and the cage has opened
