sgWhisper

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Repercussions.Beauty out in the open, light falls on linoleum tiles like heel-worn stones / Windows to a sunny world sit at the end of locker-lined tunnels, beckoning beyond fluorescent mazes / Clotted with conversation, upperclassmen stroll like the elderly
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SunlightHis hair, soft between my fingertips. / Our foreheads are pressed together, skin pulled over bone. / I am glowing from the inside out; the sun is only an echo of my own illumination.
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Handprints.On my right; / A pair of girls with trendy leather messenger bags / Permanently glued to their shoulders
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Sans Sleep.The sky is dip-dyed in gray / Worn at the edges by pulling little hands / Opaque; no light shines through
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Puzzle Pieces.I am motherless. / She sits on the hutch in our dining room, in a ceramic urn. / Watching her fall has made me rise
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A Brief Explanation Of AnatomyUnfolding flowers, grasping, slipping through the future’s mist / The weights of fear and experience worn on a wrist / A touch, smooth yet microscopically rough, transfers words
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The Want ForMy first kiss / hasn't happened yet. / But it's there.
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Love Is In The Rain.This is a night / Where you can’t tell the road from the rain / Where everything is dark and light
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For The Storm That Could BeI would stand alone in the swelled, saturated silence, / My feet planted on the ground, my arms chained. / The dark clouds above would crack, corrode, and leak,
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