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MaternityAll dressed up in her mother’s cigarettes, / Which she has put on to impress the women on the sidewalk / Gossiping about someone’s dead husband.
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Apr 13, 2015
Conversation PiecesI’ve played every game of hide-and-go-seek / In every crepuscular backyard / I’ve ever been offered and yet I still have hungry bones,
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Apr 15, 2014
SobrietyAm I supposed to want / To do more than just take it all in, how does everyone / Hold so fast onto the silk when it’s been
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Feb 21, 2014
ErickaHer mouth was carved / By a knife, / Now an open wound, all it does is
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Feb 8, 2014
Spare ChangeSometimes they are dropped like pennies / On the sidewalk to be / Received by handsome strangers,
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Feb 8, 2014
She hidesShe is in the blue shadow of a city on the horizon, / the metronomal click of six inch heels, hypnotic on linoleum, / the reflection of one window in another,
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Apr 25, 2013
HaloI’m outside and the air is so crisp it’s turned brittle / When I move, my hair cracks with electricity / As if with each step I take, I displace
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Apr 2, 2013
A DualityIt was not weight or girth that made his presence heavy, / But a gravity. / He was like snow,
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Mar 10, 2013
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