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BrideIdling in a wedding gown, / white on white skin reflecting in its paleness / the filth of what has been
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Jul 23, 2023
FreckledHyacinths shiver in the breeze / Dark hair framed by creamy peony petals / Sulking against coal curls because the boy is too beautiful
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Jul 23, 2023
Day Drunkice cube astronauts / in a melting mint galaxy of / gin and floral tonic
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Jul 23, 2023
Self Portrait 1seated in forest grass, in a blue / mossy nest, hot to the touch / despite a lack of sun,
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Jul 23, 2023
Wasted VacationYour voice is a honey-lacquered harp string / Plucked with precision and ease and / your two hands turn the pages of my sheet music
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Jul 23, 2023
UntitledWhatever was that sapling between us / growing steadily without sun? / Did it beg for the sea-washed crook of your arm?
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Jul 18, 2023
FracturedI searched myself for you / in the promiscuous creek foam / in the still summer pond
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Jul 18, 2023
UntitledDreamt of being awash in arms / that were neither mine nor / belonged to mine
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Jul 18, 2023
RetinopathyIn a spot where my left eye / should see clearly is / a new eye
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Jul 18, 2023
February 8thAt night while you sleep, I carve out / spoonfuls of gut, and wax and polish and buff / and replace it with stitches so fine
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Jul 30, 2013
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