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Words are like waves; / I wash up on / Your wine-dark shores.
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Jun 13, 2013
Potentially (Sleep)
Would you watch me, while I sleep? (Just a thought / So many other things you’d rather do, / I’m a probable loss, not really sought).
14
Jun 13, 2013
trees
we are as sapling trees, / whose branches touch, but do / not yet meet, deciding
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Jun 13, 2013
Sonnet for Wonder
If the world is small, how is it also / Infinite? What whirls us round, throwing me / To you, for you? Every kiss, the world forgoes
14
May 20, 2013
Dear Internet Boy;
I’d write you a song, but we’re not ancient romans. / Nor am I particularly skilled. No - / I’ll make you a mix-tape. But then, you already
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Apr 27, 2013
Sonnet on Going for Coffee
I sit and stare, the cursor taps, yet no / Words come to tell you of my, uh, sorrow. / That’s right, sorrow and I, yet ever grow
14
Apr 27, 2013
Hoxton Bar and Kitchen
I once saw, scrawled / in marker pen; / The apocalypse
13
Apr 20, 2013
americana
a firefly. / aglow in twilight air, / burning dust up brighter
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Apr 18, 2013
Elegy for the Awkward
Not for us do vistas spread, for “pastoral bliss” / take ancient poets, who under skies kiss. / For the internet kids, blinking lights of cities,
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Apr 16, 2013
the pantomime dancer
his fingers sing, strumming / melodies from circle sweeps, / telling tales of lovers’ tryst,
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Apr 16, 2013
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