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He tires with certainty,
Locks himself away.
Turns into a ghost,
Disappearing for days.
A cup that is empty
Waits for time to heal all.
Surrounded by noise and
Feeling so small.
A buffer is the night with
A new given chance.
For him to recover
Then rejoin the dance.
16h · 39
What Flavors Rise
Are blueberry skies
Over strawberry fields
And what flavors rise
When they meet?

Do the clouds taste
A bit sour or do you
Suppose they're sweet?
17h · 37
A Blemish Known
Singled out speck,

Imperfections—

Bullied into boxes.

Locks placed with

Dancing keys then

Thrown away.

A blemish known,

Soiled.

All a lie—a truth!

Puzzle pieces perfect

On their own, no worry,

Untethered, and

Free!
17h · 89
Quiet Popping
Seltzer tears

Bubble
Down,

Burning eyelids

Shut.

Fizziness stings

Like bandages

Ripped

From healing
Wounds.

Quiet popping

Reels in silence.

Time
Is slow.
1d · 26
Rose of Jericho
Wake like a Rose of Jericho,
Bringing fortune to your lips.
Swinging life forth, green
And delicate, to a desolate day.
1d · 31
The Dreamer
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.
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 —