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autumn creases
with leaf releases
it never ceases
until it runs out of pieces
No one important
I'll die alone, unknown
Quiet in the night
I threw a Rolling Stone

Just the little poems
Honeymoon in Rome
Temples at Angkor Wat
Very far from home

                Shiva!
Cascading
Flowing
Tiny Pools
Horrible storms
Droplets
In joy
In Sorrow
Not enough tissues
Lovely Linen hankies
On his collar
On his shoulder
In my hair
Everywhere
Tears
Sun is going out
white lily sad hangs head
unseen tears blurred view.



Shell✨🐚
The world in mourning.
sometimes
i need to remind myself
you’re my therapist,
not my buddy.
but man,
i wish i could text you.

i’m breaking
to pieces,
tearing
at the seams —

could you please
clear your calendar
for me?
this one is about depression, and wishing you could lean on someone you’re not allowed to.
Three women at the river’s edge,
bare feet digging into the cold,
playing that wicked game
hunting guilty pleasures,
dragging sin from her dark bed,
laughing loud, trembling wild
in the ruthless lap of lust.
Their hands don’t just touch
they carve borders into flesh and bone,
claiming, mapping,
finding fierce truths in each other’s fire.
Behind them, a desperate cry:
Don’t stop. Don’t ******* stop.
The river doesn’t care
she rages beneath their skin,
this Love they name a curse and blessing both,
the song tearing loose:
Oh my God, oh my God,
oh my ******* God
don’t stop, you savage witch, don’t.
**** all men and their chains.
The water shudders
bearing the heat of fevered bodies,
waves crash like a scream,
wild, sharp, relentless
******-waves breaking, breaking.
At the river’s ragged edge,
they spill their longing like blood
holy, savage, untouchable.
This is their cathedral,
their war-cry,
and no shadow anywhere
dares claim they weren’t here.
Love calls.
Love burns.
Love breaks everything.
the cicadas slur their final words
of summer

from one side of the lake
to the other

a sedge of herons
is perfect

just above the water
all along

the green of the mountains
autumn

is already pecking its reds
and yellows

drift to any distance
and you will dance

through delight
and damage

i have been           loneliness
i have been           holiness

and i now know
the difference
kind of cry
is when your tears fall
without you blinking.

No trembling lip.
No heave of breath.
Just silent surrender
from eyes that forgot
how to fight it.

That,
that is the sign
we've been through
enough.

And still,
we stay standing.
Barely.
But still.
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