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kate-joy
kate-joy
American Walk with me
Choices are demanding. They either benefit both parties, either one, or neither.  A constant give and take, a prosperous economy.  Never yielding, never waiting, ever lurking, ever close. You can't control the choices you will have to make, nor can you control the outcome.  You cannot choose your consequence, and you cannot choose your reward. It is either meant to be, or it isn't.  It is predestined.  This was written. You are doomed with the certainty of fate.
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Mar 28, 2014
Mar 28, 2014 at 10:46 AM UTC
Choices
Torrential spirituality Religion in the way that your lips meet my spine You are the connection that I used to have to the moon Milky, glazen sunshine You are the freckles in the glass of my great grandfather's telescope Sizzling electricity blooming from frayed power lines You are the anxious potential energy impounding my body
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Mar 28, 2014
Mar 28, 2014 at 10:28 AM UTC
You.
I long to spend lazy hours with you. Hours upon hours upon endless moments upon sleepless nights and sleepy mornings. I long to breathe under your fingertips and kiss your heavy eyes closed. I long to listen to your unconscious movement and diagram your restlessness on the dark curtains that are my eyelids; curving, jumping lines that separate moments of cognitive terror. I long to feel your tensions release, clothed by comfort found beneath my skin. The strain of unconscious thought, and the simple weakness of letting go; the innocence of your defenselessness in the night. Childlike beauty in the slack muscles that envelope the soft bones of your face
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Mar 27, 2014
Mar 27, 2014 at 10:38 AM UTC
Hours Upon Hours
Your skin is dark like the passionate sin we commit with every glance out of the corner of our eyes, over our shoulders, directly into the sun. Overwhelming our retinas with light, embellishing our minds with abstract, dancing spectacles. The brilliant sphere pouring energy into our pupils can't spare us the agony of fantasies buzzing in our ears, raising our tastebuds in vain. It can't save us from the pain of these visions, yet to be born to our flesh. It can't keep out the wonderful darkness of four small letters. It can't provide an escape from the in-between.
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Feb 24, 2014
Feb 24, 2014 at 5:03 PM UTC
Untitled
The phone rings and the pulse pounds the walls your head You aren't ready to escape, but it's begging you to You crawl across the floorboards a horizontal ladder You're pleading the distance between complacence and the door you're losing You're losing this war and it's just begun Gain back your ground and you win back the right to walk freely through the sprouts of hunches breaking through the sutures of your skull Let change
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Jan 8, 2014
Jan 8, 2014 at 6:36 PM UTC
Somewhere It Digs
A dark night Littered with stars and rain freshwater claims a sliver of consciousness A simple word a lonely question "Why?" You take my face into your hands letting your eyes close on minor chords It's almost silent save for piano and nervous breathing Your forehead on mine seems to speak directly to my thoughts an arrow to my subconscious An injection to my strength weakness in quiet trembles lovely petals of black and grey falling on our awestruck countenances augmenting the watery streaks of light strewn sideways across your freckled skin A hesitant thirst not eager to be quenched finally satisfied Consent in closed eyes and soft pressure Fingers caught lovelily in strands of tired hair
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Jan 8, 2014
Jan 8, 2014 at 6:32 PM UTC
A Saturday
Come out of the rain The lake is frozen over and so are your eyes Weather like this is rare crystalline beads of moisture collecting on blankets of ice You are otherworldly in the moonlight but your limbs still struggle to bridge the gaps between what was and what we are now From the driver's seat I can't tell if it's my words or your dreams trapped beneath your collarbones For now it doesn't matter I want to know your ribs like the back of my hand When you sit, almost weightless, in the passenger seat, you smell of wildflowers I want you to paint them all over my cold skin Welcome me into the springtime that is your legs
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Jan 8, 2014
Jan 8, 2014 at 6:14 PM UTC
Come Out of the Rain