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You hide yourself in the corners / Of your desk, the soft bits tucked away / Behind your vest—
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Feb 5, 2017
Summer #21
It's summer number twenty-one / and suburbia is slow roasting, / the days turning dreamily
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Apr 20, 2015
Corinthians 13
Somewhere--between the last time I smelled rain / and now--are the clanging voices of angels / resounding without love, like rusted brass gongs
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May 28, 2014
e.e. cummings blurred and *****
Her tongue in cotton, / a crack / between her jaws:
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Mar 2, 2014
Swing
our bodies are slack / lines of rope / thrown up to the sky
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Mar 2, 2014
Eating Alone
What keeps you sharp, / hardening your bones against / the soft dark, between
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Mar 2, 2014
Untitled
Who was my mother before / she met my father and learned to scream? / Did she wear her hair long and loose,
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Feb 26, 2014
Place for Fish
Eternity: / I am seven and forbidden / a book. If I look down I'll puke.
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Feb 26, 2014
Dear Stranger,
I met someone all stretched out / with kindness and life experience / minus a college degree. One year
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Feb 15, 2014
Mint Tea in Algiers
I have seen the teahouses / carved into cerulean arches / that make a delicate reach
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Jan 19, 2014
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