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Bride
Idling in a wedding gown, / white on white skin reflecting in its paleness / the filth of what has been
23
Jul 23, 2023
Freckled
Hyacinths shiver in the breeze / Dark hair framed by creamy peony petals / Sulking against coal curls because the boy is too beautiful
4
Jul 23, 2023
Day Drunk
ice cube astronauts / in a melting mint galaxy of / gin and floral tonic
5
Jul 23, 2023
Self Portrait 1
seated 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 Vacation
Your voice is a honey-lacquered harp string / Plucked with precision and ease and / your two hands turn the pages of my sheet music
10
Jul 23, 2023
Untitled
Whatever was that sapling between us / growing steadily without sun? / Did it beg for the sea-washed crook of your arm?
5
Jul 18, 2023
Fractured
I searched myself for you / in the promiscuous creek foam / in the still summer pond
10
Jul 18, 2023
Untitled
Dreamt of being awash in arms / that were neither mine nor / belonged to mine
13
Jul 18, 2023
Retinopathy
In a spot where my left eye / should see clearly is / a new eye
7
Jul 18, 2023
February 8th
At night while you sleep, I carve out / spoonfuls of gut, and wax and polish and buff / and replace it with stitches so fine
4
Jul 30, 2013
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