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Sestina 4 - Edit my health
Are you sound of mind? / Addicted to dandelions / like the ocean is to ice.
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Dec 9, 2014
Softly cut and count prescriptions
I’ve been trying to fall asleep for 17 years / leaving blue imprints of my face on pillow cases / a signature of each dream I’ve had and forgotten.
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Dec 9, 2014
Sestina 3 - Salt toffee
Your brittle calcium coated voice / slides down my throat like water, / little blue gods of poetry.
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Feb 18, 2014
Sestina 2 - Mouths
Sleep is timed to the minute, / my breaths let out lazy smoke / icicles make goose bumps into paragraphs
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Feb 16, 2014
Sestina 1 - Surgical winds
The deep sighs of fall / send chills across the daisies. / My compass is sick
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Feb 16, 2014
The sun in your irises
You have stars in your hands / and you hold them like grenades. / The boats tattooed on your thighs
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Aug 25, 2013
Glaze over and retire
Tighten your braces with yellows, / UV lights in police cars, / your high socks and new crewnecks,
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Jun 21, 2013
This is the machine
This is the machine. / Tucked under necklaces, poppies and daffodils / calligraphic fingertip Xs
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Jun 1, 2013
Can I write poetry on you?
May I write a Shakespearian sonnet on / the square inches of skin / between your thumb joint and elbow?
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Jun 1, 2013
Battle scars
The day you leave daisies in my pocket / is the first time I wore proper pajamas. / Right-handed scissors paint
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Apr 24, 2013
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