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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
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
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
in my dream of spirals we meet on the stairs at the shoulder of the world may i? i ask as i gather you in my arms; in our cloak of words our filigreed cocoon of thought here, in our dawn of skin we shine softly and spill from a thousand kisses through an open window
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Jul 25, 2014
Jul 25, 2014 at 7:11 AM UTC
dream of spirals
. breath of lanterns, song of sky my kisses flock to you -- hold me, the cloud whispered to the mountain -- listen to me reading you with fingertips
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Jul 24, 2014
Jul 24, 2014 at 8:26 AM UTC
thoughts 20140703
i imagine i watch you, walking barefoot through the afternoon your hem dances, sings the rhythm of your feet, you smile at wonder that rushes you with small hands you drink it in to give yourself there is a gull-down sadness folded in your beauty a blue tenderness in the lilt of your wrists a lock of hair to lift from your cheek and those brown eyes
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Jul 24, 2014
Jul 24, 2014 at 3:10 AM UTC
fringe