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2/1/15cold tea falls behind my teeth. / I always liked dead flowers better anyway--they're easier to draw. / at least they're done decaying. easier to relate to.
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Feb 1, 2015
CatalinaI wish it was easy for me to do what you do, / But I have never been very good at opening myself up. / You do it with such elegance.
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Jun 17, 2013
Cruel FateI hope that I'm your Moby **** / I hope I'm the sneering, many-toothed crocodile from your Captain Hook head. / I hope you awake, late in the night, sweating, hearing a ticking sound,
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Jul 15, 2013
EyelidYou closed your eyes on me. You closed your eyes on me. You closed your eyes on me. You closed your eyes on me. There was something about your shutter-speed, that curtain-call, that eyelash-escape. If a door closes that never was opened does its swing still reek of creaking finality? You closed your eyes on me, but I’ve only ever seen your eyelids. There’s some humor in that—my gaze ricochets when you close your eyes. Myself, I play Sisyphus: chasing their constant motion uphill only to eventually realize my curse and slide down subjected to eternity. A forever of the ****** function designed to exclude. I had a dream once that I caught you, eyes open, staring into forever from the wing of a plane. I was dying of thirst and leapt into you, landing on the horizon of your attention. The black of your eye saw me there, but quickly grew tired and retreated under a thick, peachy veil of resolute disinterest.
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May 9, 2013
FatherThree hot tears rolled down my face / and I think they were what's left of you. / The sky darkened as we drove home.
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Jun 17, 2013
FictionI write poems, not people, / And in them we all move so gracefully. / I diagnose myself freely with the
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Aug 6, 2014
For The FamilyThey were every beautiful color the world had ever set right. / Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Pink, Purple, Orange / All grown from the green and taught to worship the blue.
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May 8, 2013
HeavyChasing wine with cigarettes--I can hold your face but I could never hold you. / My love, you are far too heavy; / Dense with things I never should have told you.
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Apr 28, 2014
HowlI howl for you, against myself. / I howl for you because I hunt. / primal instinct
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Aug 6, 2014
InfinityThe most beautiful thing in the world is disappearing. / Eyes half-shut, / Eyes, half-shut,
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May 8, 2013
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