mackenzie-turnerWhisper

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dental recordsI used to keep my baby teeth in a butterscotch tin. / I guess I was making an investment / in tooth-fairy stock; trying to diversify my easter bunny portfolio.
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darkling hushi slept in the heart of the swallow’s breast / in the tire-swing marina / “who do you love best?”
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Your Sneakers, in TidepoolsThe water in your blood / was once in the blood of dinosaurs, / the blood of bears, the blood of wolves.
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a foreigner lamp lightingfistfulls of tsampa, butter lamps, / kneeling till my legs are cramped / and feeling less than human here,
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unrepentive passive-aggressive finds happiness because time is unjustyou read those books where they build girl angels in laboratories / who fall in love with lonely boys. / you like hearing your poems
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a very narrow human interval between two tiger heartbeatsI felt with one hand in your depths-- / *fathomless!*--for an emblem, an anthem! / No other time but then
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The Rector Counts Lost GullsWho fell asleep in / her headphones plugged into / Abalone shells
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There are no mirrors, there are only lenses1. I have to stop when I catch myself mentally titling poems about how you and I do not belong together. / 2. *Doomed like your mother, doomed like your father*—don’t think it, don’t think it—*loneliness is my birthright, loneliness is my bride.* / 3. This is a mania, this is a phobia. Tag your neuroses and track them, keep track of them.
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alien, alienan earth spilled you soft / onto meadows of grass / and arms lifted you up
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I'll die hungry, thank you.God, but your patient. / I can’t stand how much you love me, in the grocery store. / You give me so much time,
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