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Zahra Aug 17
In youth, love
  is concentrated
like sugar in a
drink-
restless,
rushing
fizzing.
Zahra Aug 15
To hate
someone
is to
heave a
thousand
mountains
with bare
palmer
creases.
It is to sip
poison
first, just
to test
its sting,
it is to
fall
into a
field
of thistles
  banging'.
Zahra Aug 14
The sun
says nothing,
yet the
world
answers-
warbling,
chirring,
tweeting.
The sun opens
me like a door
each day and
the moon is
my final exit-
and between
these two
i'm kept.
Zahra Aug 13
stop! I said to
this clanging mind
go! I said to my
hedonist heart
neither of the
  two deserves
my body.
Zahra Aug 12
This morning,
i felt that
nature, too,
celebrates
the birth of
her saplings-
lifting their
tender heads
toward the sun
and scraping
them against
the smudged,
beheaded
moon.
Zahra Aug 11
Poetry
isn’t
always
about
cactus
giggling
under
raindrops
or raging
against
herbivory.
It’s the
art of
being
heard in
babbling
phases.
Zahra Aug 9
One
wacky
thing
about
learning-
you start
off,
knowing
less but,
feeling
sure,
you tack
on extra
syllables-
animal
becomes
'aminal',
you drop
a few-
fish turns
into "ish'
we’re born
naming
things,
impetuously,
because
meaning
can’t wait.
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