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 Jun 2020 Jennifer McCurry
amanda
was
the word ‘was
carries a lot of weight
so that you don’t have to
the older i get,
the more respect i have
for the past tense
 Jun 2020 Jennifer McCurry
Ell
that love still lingers between my bones,
time stopped, resumed in monotone.
you're tumbling, skipping through red,
my reverie, it's settled in flesh.
each cross shall guide us till the next,
we hide, escape, yet follow these steps.

if we by chance meet in the face of the sea,
let's keep each other company.
if i find you in the waves between,
my god, that's when you'll know,
i'm already half in love with you.
Enn the queen
There's aunts all over
my kitchen floor

Mother says they're awful
for the cookie badder

Oftentimes, we live in a processed world
but it's beyond my apprehension

Just please read me the recipe
or draw me a diaphragm
Poem challenge by Jennifer McCurry,
write a poem using malapropisms.
Times when the heart doesn’t feel its own beat
Lost, maybe some part of it forever displaced
Work makes sure, time is passed
Together, still doesn’t help
Stuck in some redundancy
Maybe, they work well, separately
Time and work
Maybe it’s for words to see
Break my bones;
cut my throat.
Pull me open,
learn the ropes.

Breath me in;
taste the fear.
Shank my skin;
stand and cheer.

Kick my head;
let me bleed.
Unbolt my veins;
enjoy the read.

Gouge my eyes;
punch my face.
Wrap me up
in your embrace.
Get to know me like I do you; inside and out.
I opened my eyes up to the sky
The only beauty there ever was
I drank up the stars when I looked at them
Felt myself floating away in that stunning  chaos

My only bound was that of gravity
Prying me away from the life I wanted
He pinned my arms to the ground
Apart and away from the chasm dotted

I wait for the day he goes to sleep
The day the string finally snaps
The day I soar away from this life
From this draining and clinging remorseless trap

When I fall in the abyss, I will finally smile
Awe-stricken, the void of swirling colours
And I would fall and I would soar
And I would live with this love I discover
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