buckybarnes
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it's okay to let go sometimes
you keep looking at me like i’m god-fucking-incarnate, babydoll / sucking at the rind of an orange i bought you ages ago like it’ll still give you sweetness if you just ask it nicely / here’s the part where we die, me first, telling you something sweet so you won’t feel too bad. here’s where my hand meets yours, curling around your little knuckles like i can’t die right without it.
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Feb 6, 2016
11:49
you call me - "baby, babe" / and it doesn't feel like it should
2
Dec 28, 2015
naming you
the bow of your back, taut / sweat sticky / opiated and fizzing,the air stirs
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Dec 27, 2015
heartbreak horizon
it goes like this- / he pulls himself into himself, ribs / collapsing inward in an attempt to become smaller. smoke and mirrors and a jump from a high-rise
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Dec 27, 2015
blue whale / dive in deep
luminous and trembling, he / walks like the soles of his feet are made of moonlight, he / fucks you like he's trying to tell you something, he
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Dec 27, 2015
the honeybee song
i can still see you there, / some delirious and shining thing / a beautiful bastard with your
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Dec 27, 2015
a calculation, a sell-by date
1. in the grand scheme of things, he’s the trees and I’m the river and the stones are always, always covered in blood / 2. he keeps looking at me over his shoulder and I don’t know if it’s because he knows I’m lying or if he’s checking to see that I’m still alive / 3. he told me I was a god, some free and ruthless and holy thing and I told him he was the sun and we’re both waiting on the test results to see who won
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Dec 27, 2015
deliverance
he calls you wild, dionysus / he calls you sweltering and dangerous / and you know when he says it he doesn't mean beautiful or kind,
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Dec 27, 2015
reductio ad absurdum
starving burning moonlight screaming onto your skin / you turn to me and say, / is this okay? is this good enough?
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Dec 27, 2015
and so the saints did cry hallelujah
this bacchanalia- / this history, loud and drunk / and reveling
5
Dec 27, 2015
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