marissa-cooper
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Black windowpanes / Single yellow candle / Abandoned lighthouse
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Birthday Cake
As I blew my candles out / I forgot to make a wish / Instead I let my chest tear
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Traveler
Your body was once my atlas / The lines of our hands / Play the latitudes and longitudes
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Ibu
as a bundle of batik cloth / you carried me / slung across your shoulders
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Blossom
night after night / she walks into wonderland / under hazy streetlights
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canvas
I used to not / Be able to distinguish / The brushstrokes between
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Falling Awake
my heart’s an old motel room / all filthy carpets / and no hot water
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Bed Sheets
Underneath cotton lengths / A prism of daybreak / When my eyelids beat faster
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Crimson Promise
the gods told me / that while we lay last night / they wound a tiny red ribbon
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***** Deed
please don’t let me / lose my lips / to open wide
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