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canvas
I used to not / Be able to distinguish / The brushstrokes between
8
Nov 12, 2013
Birthday Cake
As I blew my candles out / I forgot to make a wish / Instead I let my chest tear
18
Jun 13, 2013
Bed Sheets
Underneath cotton lengths / A prism of daybreak / When my eyelids beat faster
7
Jun 13, 2013
Colors
Black windowpanes / Single yellow candle / Abandoned lighthouse
27
Jun 13, 2013
Falling Awake
my heart’s an old motel room / all filthy carpets / and no hot water
28
May 18, 2013
Traveler
Your body was once my atlas / The lines of our hands / Play the latitudes and longitudes
12
May 18, 2013
Ibu
as a bundle of batik cloth / you carried me / slung across your shoulders
27
May 18, 2013
***** Deed
please don’t let me / lose my lips / to open wide
20
May 18, 2013
Blossom
night after night / she walks into wonderland / under hazy streetlights
30
May 18, 2013
Crimson Promise
the gods told me / that while we lay last night / they wound a tiny red ribbon
16
May 18, 2013
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