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her eyelids close. hot heavy and sticky in the creases with the slime the heat of the day. / she is bruised on her legs. green purple yellow. clumsy her. someone ought to tell her to be careful. / but she looks again and they look sort of like mishapen art on her flesh. bruises and dark freckles, scattered, over her shoulders like flecks of paint. dark hair, crazy hair, she tries to fix to no avail. her heartbeat thunders in her thin bones, louder than her voice rambling sweet nothings and her fingers tapping the nightstand. the ink in her skin slink off of her body like vines, roots, slithering across the bed over cotton hills to reah him. soak into him and wrap their tendrils around the ink in his skin.
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Mar 11, 2016
Cartoon Moon
I heel, ball, toe on a beaten path / in the cold and the dark. / The light of the cartoon moon spills
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Jul 8, 2012
Do You Not Remember?
'Tis heartbreaking to see you marvel so at children's play. / Do you not remember that you were once a child? / Have you lost the sweet ring-a-ding-dings of fairytale teachings?
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Jul 8, 2012
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Night sweeps in with its great, black wings. / These rustling, silk feathers that / impregnate my lungs with midnight down.
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Jul 8, 2012
I Never Wanted Your Love
What a wretched thing, / Hollow mahogany and / Mother of pearl inlay
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Jul 8, 2012
Looking
She holds her knees to her chest, / hair falls in strings over her eyes. / Strung out in an alley that is
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Jul 8, 2012
A Strange Place For Peace
I live in limbo. / Suspended somewhere between towering / Steel Titans and
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Jul 8, 2012
People boys.
He's just a people boy and I'm just a people girl / And he's breaking my floor / I come tumbling down
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Aug 4, 2011
megan. megan. are you asleep?
the night sweeps in with its great, black wings. / rustling, silk feathers. / i'm caught in the envelope, suffocated in midnight down.
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Aug 4, 2011
get me high.
take me under. / sweet surrender. / let me sink into you like my feet in the sand
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Jul 26, 2011
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