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14 Pointing to You
And still,
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I sat with my hands in my lap —
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palms up,
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like I was waiting for something
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I knew
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Mar 22, 2025
2011, Tied Off and Dripping
This is how you set a circle with the switchblade someone shoved in your purse at a party; remember
5m
Oct 7, 2014
2014 Cast Out
2014. I bought mascara and cantered through it-
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stopping every so often to straighten up,
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to rel
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Jan 2, 2015
3am, Here, again.
I try to live Here. Here is humid-sticky-underground-dance-hall hot. I’m caught tight in a mess of l
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Jul 2, 2014
9/7
Standing like a steeple in his shower,
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just as revered and rickety,
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mouth open,
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pooling warm t
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Sep 9, 2015
9/8
a backlit ode to rooftops
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in skeleton suburbs
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(like nostalgic,
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like naked,
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like full of star
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Sep 9, 2015
all tomorrow's bodies
What happened while
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the manuscripts choked?
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Lighter shoulders,
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stranger testaments.
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Pardons
3m
May 10, 2023
an ache, a break or a hurricane
It’s nights like these;
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when the sky feels raw-quiet
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and the moon hangs so low-heavy
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and pulpy
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Dec 16, 2014
Another Mess
Shut off the sky if I ask you to.
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Grab my world so brassy boring between
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battles and courage. /
2m
Feb 25, 2016
answers
You wrote yourself a note and taped it to the window,
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now it’s sun-stained, ink-blurred,
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Jun 26, 2024
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