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LL Dec 2024
lying beside me
you're the sound of heavy snow—
storm in December

just the reason to stay put
curled up by a fire —
                                       your fire
LL Dec 2024
if I end up
                   dead
to you
,
             I hope you'll keep all
the green bones left at
the funeral pyre — show them
to me the next time we meet
LL Dec 2024
enter through the same
door he walked out of — that is
how
          you find
                           my heart

LL Dec 2024
when I say don't stop
I'm pleading more to myself
than I am to you

    don't stop giving in
   'til the shape of your back is
    the shape of his palms

   don't stop yielding up
    'til your secrets liquefy
   into his whiskey

   don't stop submitting
   'til you see the skin under
   his chin sleek and flushed

LL Dec 2024
if you want to shut
me up, lock my lower lip
in-between your teeth
LL Dec 2024
I keep wanting you
and aching afterward — yet
I keep
            coming
                           back

LL Dec 2024
sun's hot, water's wet
— and skin was just skin until
I saw it on you
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