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monica-f
26/Genderqueer
One last big beautiful day together Things breathing As they close in on themselves and open into endless infinite expanse A cacophonous brass A sweet simple quiet And my eyes on yours pools love from my belly to my forehead and casts it out into the vast world Step in Move forward Go on go ahead It’s okay it’s just change Hold my hand for all of today press fingers into impressions I wish would Try to wrap sensory morsels of memory into shiny silver tokens To unwrap tomorrow and the next day and the next When the space between my fingers aches My heart is soft and Buoyant in the heavy rain of my internal ocean And I wiggle my toes in my shoes to remind myself that I am here, and this is real, and try my best to trust myself in the love and life I have I have to I have To give myself The uncertainty of tomorrow is blinding The anticipation of another clean-ish slate The dread of my gaze on my gaze in the morning mirror The language of cornea, pupil, iris, all exposing my grief In the moments I’m alone washing my hands while you wait on the couch I catch glimpses of my tomorrow I have my pain to reckon with And **** it if it’s binding I step outside to soak you in I breathe with deliberation Inhaling as I crack open Exhaling as I dissolve And try to pull on the long tether The most pure tether anchored deep in the sandy bottom of my internal ocean Anchored by the call of the sea bird taking flight from my belly Where certainty of time and evolution lays beneath all things I have to let you go And gosh your jaw is open and alive and how I want it to stay mobile unlike the stillness of your fixed smile in my mind A still, maybe of you at your best, but no longer dancing with time And gosh, I love you Beyond all time and space And gosh, how change and time have a deal that leaves me with space Between my fingers
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Aug 27, 2025
Aug 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM UTC
a most loving defeat
One last big beautiful day together Things breathing As they close in on themselves and open into endless infinite expanse A cacophonous brass A sweet simple quiet And my eyes on yours pools love from my belly to my forehead and casts it out into the vast world Step in Move forward Go on go ahead It’s okay it’s just change Hold my hand for all of today press fingers into impressions I wish would Try to wrap sensory morsels of memory into shiny silver tokens To unwrap tomorrow and the next day and the next When the space between my fingers aches My heart is soft and Buoyant in the heavy rain of my internal ocean And I wiggle my toes in my shoes to remind myself that I am here, and this is real, and try my best to trust myself in the love and life I have I have to I have To give myself The uncertainty of tomorrow is blinding The anticipation of another clean-ish slate The dread of my gaze on my gaze in the morning mirror The language of cornea, pupil, iris, all exposing my grief In the moments I’m alone washing my hands while you wait on the couch I catch glimpses of my tomorrow I have my pain to reckon with And **** it if it’s binding I step outside to soak you in I breathe with deliberation Inhaling as I crack open Exhaling as I dissolve And try to pull on the long tether The most pure tether anchored deep in the sandy bottom of my internal ocean Anchored by the call of the sea bird taking flight from my belly Where certainty of time and evolution lays beneath all things I have to let you go And gosh your jaw is open and alive and how I want it to stay mobile unlike the stillness of your fixed smile in my mind A still, maybe of you at your best, but no longer dancing with time And gosh, I love you Beyond all time and space And gosh, how change and time have a deal that leaves me with space Between my fingers
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Blood thick as crystallized molasses Cold and golden Goose bumps crisp up my skin Glistening with snow Heart belly heart chest and bones Aura bright white Ascending Take me take me Sick to my stomach and terrified This rain pelts the roof constantly Divine surrendering Slept-in cotton smells stretched long sleeves Eyes heavy Love spilling from my lips today Will not keep it tight Goodbye goodbye My baby dear My fawn my sweets Oh how my heart aches with bittersweet Morsels of your tongue melt in my memory Warm whispers of your voice Silken up my skin A collision of your cool warmth, my heart on fire Eyes, cheeks, mouth, gaze, all squinting and making me fall in love with you And you feel it too I want to cry while I catch my breath I want to ***** I want to know why I, deserve a life, just so and full of love Divine surrendering Wash me of my joy and my delight Float me down the river in sorrow Much to feel and see as my penance Devoid of love. Of pleasure. Of forgiveness Divine surrendering Let a tear drop to my pillow, please Let this well under my collar bones be brought to tea and sipped Let slow shakey hands wash in my water Let the depths be a mirror to reflect in And let sunlight cascade rays through rippling waves Rainbow and iridescent Tainting the grey with hope Holding your hand with mine in the not alone Divine surrendering
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Apr 21, 2024
Apr 21, 2024 at 1:59 PM UTC
divine surrendering I
Belting hot breath into cold atmosphere Where still molecules grasp in delight at my warm wet offering Ecstatic in its heat and vibrating wavelength Attempted vibrato Soft winter hues vibrant under a thin sheet of frost Timid in their pause or perhaps effervescent vibrant just unnoticed Lending inspiration to my animalistic undying expression Magnetizing the door of inspiration slamming open Whooshing out Up and out up and out Effervescent bubbles surface to my skin Pop pop popping Hair standing on end Tingles from cervical spine to elbows to ribs Racing roots down my bones fast and satisfying Goosebumps and ******* unable to soften Sharp. Cold. Bold. ****** Blissful. Loud baby LOUD Winter purple hues Against pale sky and pale evergreens Heat in my heart Stoked by the fire of winter Subtlety offering expression and visibility up to me
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Mar 12, 2024
Mar 12, 2024 at 1:56 PM UTC
winter purple
Surrounded by Spanish moss and cypress knees Ripples filled with sun Cold water that I don’t mind I want to float blue flowers on the surface of the water Plucking stem from armful bounty that I’ve humbly been gifted The heavens choosing a blue so deep and so true Like the color of the ocean when you’ve gone out too far I want to let the water hold my love for you A wake of buoyant violet teacups Filling the surface delicately Tastefully Truly Catch my gaze For a moment long enough the love I hold for you surely apparent in my smiling eyes Teary, surely, and heart filled This lasting love pure as clear aquifer filling and pushing current forward Boundless as waters without borders Cycling and crisping with movement through ecosystems, through time And while I grieve our eyes not holding each other While I grieve yours not falling on mine to rest I’ve got nothing but armfuls of blue flowers To float around you As you paddle on
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Mar 12, 2024
Mar 12, 2024 at 1:51 PM UTC
bittersweet blue
Viscous and tender These moments around 9pm Upside down and gazing Feet like a rowdy symphony All moving in raucous allyship I simmer in the delicate effervescence Teeming vines thrilled and dancing Swimming through viscosity Thickness perhaps birthing from relief Oneness poured on hands cupped Oneness, soupy with depths as rich as each commits to be changed Devotional maillard reactions Steam and aroma and fond and breath and hum Seasoned bounty poured, glazed, caked, sprinkled, contained, admired, held, extracted, celebrated, loudly slurped the rah crescendos, ebbs and flows surely settling as the hours pass Doors open and close part way Grateful glances bid adieu Oneness composted little by little I’ll meet you again, perhaps anew and teeming with new spirit Until next Thursday
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Dec 25, 2023
Dec 25, 2023 at 2:10 AM UTC
An Ode to Places That Hold Me
i feel so held in the cradle of the canyon the dips in the earth the way she swells and wants my eyes to know it the way she bathes my breath in tiny ice crystals as i stare frosty-eyed, at her dusted in snow it all is a caress - soft as sheets floating, fluttering, onto skin as lover makes the bed around you her voice softens to a whisper of pine needles in wind as cold dampens, assuages, sound every cell is called to calm drawn to a hush i think i can close my eyes and rest here i think i can open my ribcage to more breath sweet and crisp inspiration hushed sip i think i can soften into the blankets laid out for me under these trees a sensational winter picnic a cordial invitation from earth and saraswati
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Dec 8, 2023
Dec 8, 2023 at 10:53 PM UTC
the veil thin
Let me disarm you Let me flood your senses With the sureness of my desire Pulling the stars of ecstasy Down to earth to meet your body Sipping the freshest water from the heavens A dense fog draped over this city now Drizzly Cold ******* hard Body shaking with anticipation Tender lust Damp desire Warmth on your breath from your sweet promises Fumbling Tumbling There is a velvet purple cherry on your lips A confident swing in your hips A ***** glimmer in your magnetic gaze **** My jaw clenched The room unmistakably quiets when we kiss Tender sureness A deep untethered momentum Drags us along
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Dec 14, 2022
Dec 14, 2022 at 1:04 PM UTC
Midnight on the couch
You pull Like a magnet Backward On the webbing of my mind Drawing me through time and space Reverting Away from here A metaphysical delusion An ache in my belly A catch on my breath as you pull on the threads that make this moment And all I can do Is lean forward And let it stretch Lean into now Here What is Me and My life Now I lean into what I can I try To run And swim And laugh And cry And not get pulled Backward Into you I lean in I love I breathe I take in this beautiful world I feel you pull Sometimes But mostly I lean forward And feel myself Moving on
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Dec 14, 2022
Dec 14, 2022 at 1:03 PM UTC
Metaphysics of grief
In this moment Pleading To be held in your arms In your loving arms To feel connected once again Please Scoop me up Wrap me in all of you Hold my hand and drag me around this country Let me breathe in the warm dust that your shoes pick up as you stomp around these desert trails Any shimmer of your sparkle Give it to me Put it in my pocket For me to collect and to keep Exist in my presence I’m sick of these wispy memories Like stop motion flipping in my mind I’m trying to be grateful I’m trying to be okay With all this space you’ve given you and me With all this silence for me to sit in But god do I miss the sureness in your eyes The validation that my soul has been touched, has been seen Won’t settle for this being brief Give me everything Or nothing more than nothing Indulge me, envelop me, bathe me Or leave me be I am boundless for your love
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Dec 14, 2022
Dec 14, 2022 at 1:02 PM UTC
Pleading
Stop dancing around the fire It still licks and burns all the same Your exhausted breath Breathes oxygen into it Why stoke the flame with hope Why coddle the slowing flame Take a handful of ash Rub it on your body Feel the earth between your toes Scatter the ash upon your heart And coddle the tender roots that surely will emerge
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Jan 18, 2022
Jan 18, 2022 at 11:08 PM UTC
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