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Curtains
There are no curtains / At our windows- / Our room opens into the sky street
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Jun 29, 2020
Chimney
There’s a pigeon in our chimney / His cooes are like an unreliable / Cuckoo clock-
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Jun 29, 2020
Now
when you call out for me again / and another hot plate of food turns cold / with each second that I hold you to sleep -
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Jun 29, 2020
Becoming
You are reeling in / an unformed cord / gently tugging yourself into existence
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Jun 29, 2020
Yellow Man
He turned us into palm trees, dusty toes / pressed into my inner thigh. / A cold wind of collective breath,
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Jun 29, 2020
Driver
You had sand in your hair, / freckles under your eyes / where the sun kissed your face
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Jul 8, 2017
lesson
you didn't know / the moon leaned drunk in another hemisphere / or that the street-steeped colours would dye your soul
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Aug 4, 2015
Travelling Moon
In my eleventh full moon of freedom, / her soft contours are memories; / scars speaking tales of collisions
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Aug 4, 2015
nowhere but everywhere
We are growing together an album of stars, / of countries, and oceans and freckles and scars, / of songs in new tongues and new airs that we've breathed,
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Apr 1, 2015
no photograph
I dipped my hair in the ocean head-first / and a wave gulped me up and washed into my breath. / I chased you with a fistful of sand
13
Apr 1, 2015
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