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Rising Sea Levelsin winter we rubbed off our skin with bitter yellow soap / & danced across the murky floor of our brains. / ankle-deep in ambien, our toes scraped urchins & palms of anemone.
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Simple Harmonic MotionThe tide pulls in / and sine waves intersect, / surf scalloping and cresting, small,
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Fossil MermaidThe sea stretches tight on a slight, white horizon / unflurried by waves, by the clean, boneache moon. / The water rests awhile, passing slowly through the ribs of continents,
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apoptosis/anorexiaSomewhere in the furrows of pink and gray / flesh, nestled between delicate arches of pelvis, / in what was supposed to be bowels and pulsating warmth,
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Halation1. / Princely I am, as Michigan loam, / as carefully turned mud,
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love is an entropic processStrange now, to think of you / amidst this aftermath of scattered atoms and queer cells, / this apocalypse, the collision of bone and skin,
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Elba/HelenaElba / this sea is tungsten. it seethes at my touch / as white as bone, although not made of bone.
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sky songSlow like planets I’ll come, / as certain as glaciers and disease / a lovely plague upon this land
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a sonnetmy mind frays in poisson distribution. / small remnants of your heat invade my chest / like shrapnel. the moths lose constellations
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La MerThe summer before / her chest hollowed out, / ribs bowing around vacuums,
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