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AcheMy legs, two stalks of cattail swinging, against the amber yellow sun / are the single stability between us, / thin as a piece of green pastel,
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Jul 30, 2011
Black BearYou confess your love like dropping a stone into the ocean. / She swallows it whole and greedy / rolls it about her mouth,
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Jul 30, 2011
BrideIdling in a wedding gown, / white on white skin reflecting in its paleness / the filth of what has been
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Jul 23, 2023
Day Drunkice cube astronauts / in a melting mint galaxy of / gin and floral tonic
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Jul 23, 2023
February 8thAt night while you sleep, I carve out / spoonfuls of gut, and wax and polish and buff / and replace it with stitches so fine
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Jul 30, 2013
FracturedI searched myself for you / in the promiscuous creek foam / in the still summer pond
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Jul 18, 2023
FreckledHyacinths shiver in the breeze / Dark hair framed by creamy peony petals / Sulking against coal curls because the boy is too beautiful
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Jul 23, 2023
Freight TrainI'm at the end of the trail, a caboose burning midnight like a poet, / like a nobody / I'm behind Blondie and Blue Eyes and Whiteskinnygirl number one two three
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Jul 30, 2011
GemI want to be the stones to your riverbed, / pipeclayed satellites, / so that you move forever about my body
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Dec 31, 2011
It Was a Warm Night in MadridIt was a warm night in Madrid, / when I met her. / She rounded the corner like a siren would the sea,
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Jul 30, 2013
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