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DessertYou signal with your eyes, permission. It’s a look that twists my heart. My epinephrine increases, inhibits insulin secretion and my blood glucose rises. Hands roam mountains and valleys. Hips become handles. We scatter clothes across the room. Our thoughts are scattered. Down isn’t the floor, it’s the opposite of high. My breath is caught between my lungs and your tongue, darting across mine. Pain flirts with pleasure. Whoever said lips taste like strawberries is wrong. They taste much better than that.
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Apr 18, 2013
Doppler EffectDo the tiny footsteps of ants make a sound? / When we concave their hills I can’t hear a sound. / Hands, wrapped around your fingers. Eyes
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Apr 18, 2013
GreenIt’s a free country, whose prices are skyrocketing, / skyrocketing with the number of secrets. / Pick up pamphlets proclaiming promises,
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Apr 18, 2013
CascadeI grabbed your hand when no one was glancing / but you were waiting, causing constrictions / of my aorta. My legs were dancing.
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Apr 18, 2013
TornIt’s been one year. / A new coach and some new players / but the game is the same,
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Feb 27, 2013
Butterfly EffectEven sound leaves an impact / a trace in the air that meets your ear. A planned impact. / Shuffling feet on grass can crush
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Feb 27, 2013
SaturdaySitting at a tiny plastic table, between microscopes / and glass bottles of corrosives, / his son lets a mouse he named Ralph crawl up his arms.
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Feb 27, 2013
StarshipsI am late. / And as I am running down metal halls, past metal doors / hoping that the internal gravity works in my favor,
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Jan 7, 2013
Time's TaleYesterday, I turned twenty-one. / I was born in July, but I can smell the holly of winter / and graduation is a block away.
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Dec 9, 2012
Take note, OdysseusLet’s go on an odyssey, an epic / we’ll never forget. Let’s turn the world upside down, / fall into the sky, fly at light speed
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Dec 9, 2012
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