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Andi Leigh Nov 2024
Seltzer tears

Bubble
Down,

Burning eyelids

Shut.

Fizziness stings

Like bandages

Ripped

From healing
Wounds.

Quiet popping

Reels in silence.

Time
Is slow.
Andi Leigh Nov 2024
Wake like a Rose of Jericho,
Bringing fortune to your lips.
Swinging life forth, green
And delicate, to a desolate day.
Andi Leigh Nov 2024
There was something about the dreamer.
Paint in her hair, no care,
The world vast and empty but she fills
Voids with pastel static, words drip
From matte lipstick. Panic
Never takes air from her lungs,
She knows she belongs. A firefly in
A pillowed fog, not smog, but subtle
With tea latte sweetness, kept warm on
The mosaic countertop filled with
Broken glass, no longer shattered, together,
Making beauty out of severed past.
She will last through creation, motion
Lunging to brightened staircases.
She faces dilemmas by the dozen,
And will never be forgotten.
Andi Leigh Nov 2024
A deer hears spring song—
Velvet antlers draped in moss.

Lake water drinks the rain,
Drizzling to dew.

She looks to the lilypads.

Home upon the rippled mirror.

Tadpoles rush their lives.

A happy lushness of fungi
Eats away at death.

Nests are packed with
Cattail cotton.

There's more work to be done.

— The End —