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Look It In The Eye
You may not understand
What it is
To look your future in the eye
And have it blink
To not know
If your rights
Will be your rights
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What Books Get Wrong About Old Houses
You can't skip over the third stair
if you're sneaking into the kitchen
because all the stairs creak,
just in different ways.
They don't talk about the light
in the closet
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If I Were Dreaming
If I were dreaming,
would the cold and snow still bite my face
in the winter
when I went skiing?
If I were dreaming,
would the heat of June-July-August-now-October-too(?)
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Tell You
To tell you
what fall is
if you didn't know
would be the task of a poet,
and even my best words
wouldn't tell you,
really.
I could tell you what it's like
to look up at the hills
Loves
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Low Battery
This morning I woke up
to find my phone hadn't charged last night,
so I plugged it in while I stumbled through my morning routine
and picked it up right before I hurriedly left the scene.
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Steps
Wake up later than you need to, earlier than you want to and happier than you deserve to.
2) Take a shower. Look at your big little body in the mirror before you get in.
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Living Situations
My friend's home is beautiful.
It's got green walls with flowers all over. The floor is soft and plush. It's warm but only in summer, and it's too cold in winter. But my friend likes it just fine.
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sunday nights
sunday nights are my own.
old music in the corners of my mind
pen scratches on paper, ten thousand poems
two hundred and seventy-two
little golden lights, 4 walls
that mirror my soul.
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