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Your lips
A question asked by the moon
Against my skin
Tumbling down my chest

As you near
The stars grow quiet
Even my breath
Crumples like a cocktail napkin
Under the weight of our intimacy
(The way you twist
To reach your cell phone in bed)

I have kissed you in elevators
Between raindrops
and reckless thoughts -
A secret party for two
As sacred as a lone cathedral
In a century that never happened

Love is the soft ruin of better judgement
It is not to be understood
It is to be held

_________
Lion asked his pride
Why he has to watch the cubs
"I'm not sure their mine"!
Shyness overcome
With the kindness of just one,
willing to mentor
 Jun 20 Kalliope
Aphrodite
Love is a whirlwind
Creating a path I can't win
A hurricane force leaving me bleeding
From the debris, forced upon my skin
Preferring the gentle breeze
Of a tease
Please
Don't judge me by my winds
Or by my words
My predictions, in my verse
Name me after the lady in a category
The first of the year
Aphrodite is coming
Prepare
Starting to storm
 Jun 20 Kalliope
Zeno
Black Sun
 Jun 20 Kalliope
Zeno
I could've just laid down if
I wanted to

ignoring the bells that echoes
inside my head

Let the earth swallow me
among withered leaves that decay
beside me

Let the world dry out
as if all lamented things
belong to me

I could act as if
my heart is an icy winter water,
never to beat, never to warm at all

Granite skies would drift above me,
haunting me in my night and
summer days

But in the thunder that frightens me
A swift lightning would pass me by,
a crack of gold in my darkest night

The flood crashing through doors,
through all the breathe that I've lost
I would learn to hold every air that I touch

All the celestial mass throbbing in my chest
The distant rumble of supernovas
that tears me apart,
and black sunshine that shines on my face

Even if midnight splatters beneath my eyes,
with all the stars that glimmer
that badly wants to fall

Even if half of my shadow is blown to nether
I would suffer everyday, and in my pain
I knew I could feel

I would die everyday, with all lamented things
and in all my deaths

I have learned to live
 Jun 20 Kalliope
C Conner
I fell apart when
You pulled away your hand
Now I’m sinking under darkness
In the room I made my stand
So I lull myself to sleep
Under waves that you command

I thought I heard you call out
Just a phantom and a sickness
All alone in the dark now
You know I cannot do this

I screamed so you could find me
I drifted out of reach
In the ocean I created
And my phantom on the beach

Now the room it’s cold and empty
Your songs are far away
The music that you left me
Are distant echoes I replay
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