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johann-botha
poet. coder. amateur human being.
i will collect you in my arms all of you as you wish from the merest shadow you may call me i will leave through the sound of a coin on a marble step
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Sep 17, 2014
Sep 17, 2014 at 2:06 PM UTC
i will tell you this
as if pebbles underfoot the sky sings a coarse lullaby we sit stubborn and thick in the clenched pipe of time unable to pass us it seems strange, now, thorns have cleared a path for us; clouds bulge in dark promise oh, the envious hymnal breeze! how it wrings its wrists in heavy handed disbelief a cathedral of trees holds you and me between earth and spangled evening our geometries slowly converge the unknown looks away in fear as the pulp of our understanding sweetens the ink of our verse intertwined from broken shells the bird steps from her beak night screams missiles of ancient light weave the moon
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 5:32 PM UTC
solipsis (collaboration with Brittany Ortega)
starlight like ancient thread, looms thoughts in vaults behind my eyes each night, the first thing my pillow whispers is you
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 4:47 PM UTC
thread
days of restoration, making. gathering , stacking found books, some to tie, to read later. it is a curious thing, the cotton, the string. there are films and recollections for work. if i say there is nothing to understand, will you understand this statement? there is another ceasefire. sbm.
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Aug 5, 2014
Aug 5, 2014 at 5:44 AM UTC
. a day of repair .
sits prettily, the starched mat is frayed a little now. it was an evening of festivities over poetry, regarding god, diana, the queen of hearts. catch phrase, a moderate game, played better standing close, somehow. the books were cheap, stock sale in the library, he left his life to live in alaska. chapter two sbm.
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Aug 4, 2014
Aug 4, 2014 at 3:36 AM UTC
. cold tea .
let me curl up inside your heart, your ears so i may always hear the sea
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Aug 1, 2014
Aug 1, 2014 at 4:36 PM UTC
let
make bombs with razor bits to explode and cut people up. to **** and dismember, some one picks the bits up, to carry home in a bag. child. two thousand and fourteen. it is raining today. sbm.
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Aug 1, 2014
Aug 1, 2014 at 2:39 AM UTC
. humans.
by candlelight from iliac crest to supersternal notch; the delicate pilgrimage of my mouth
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Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014 at 10:02 AM UTC
[by candlelight]
beloved come, lean to me, let us be morning shadows as the hem of night slips from our lips --- when sadness lives in you you shrink inside away from your eyes you walk slowly as not to rattle
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 4:22 AM UTC
Thoughts 20140729
there is a feel in the air, a change in the whether. very place caused confusion, pond dipping involuntary shuddering, and delight at small creatures. who play croquet with new rules, we never knew the old, it proved without flamingos that i am not alice. it is about a year now, i blocked you. sbm.
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 2:55 AM UTC
. change .