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brooke Feb 2018
you came in today
and your eyes looked
a little smaller,
and my hair is
a little longer
a little of just
about everything
happened
in me just then
and I remembered
i am not made of
stone.
(c) Brooke Otto 2018

a poem from december.
brooke Feb 2018
i had a dream i was rising through the trees

i had a dream i was falling through the ground
on docks calling a name i've never known
sitting in empty studies with the lord
calling mine
bad news used to sound like footsteps
down the hallway, used to be my mother's
hand turning the doorknob
and now it is a rotating hubcap
or a night without stars
full yellow moons out over the
complexes in the west
it sounds like empty milk
cartons and the tone of my own voice
it is people demanding that i be open
the most tragic of flaws--

i am meeting people just like me
telling them I want something more
can the wounded want
more?
(c) Brooke Otto 2018

do i have any right?


a draft poem from mid-january.
brooke Feb 2018
he will tell people
that the Eagles won because we weren't together
that this winter has been so warm
because i took SkaĆ°i and hid her
beneath my skin
and this summer will be perfect
because I am not the one.
(c) Brooke Otto 2018

something that's been in my head
brooke Feb 2018
i am sure she is
just as radiant in
the sunlight, without
trying, as herself
and you in the doorway
with a mouthful of her
name, light and lovely--

*new.
(c) brooke otto 2018
brooke Feb 2018
last night i dreamed my memories
were lined in quills and nettles
soaking in jars of aloe
they played on underdeveloped
film stock, across slabs of barbary fig--
out in the desert
like a burning bush.
(c) Brooke Otto 2018
brooke Jan 2018
well i would
disdain 'gainst
the McCoy name
to prove just how
much quarrel has
to do with what
you mean to me.
(c) Brooke Otto 2018
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