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 Oct 2020 BTW
Mose
Carbonated Water
 Oct 2020 BTW
Mose
Loving myself so deeply that a longing of another evaporates.
Dissociating myself into the tiny air bubbles of carbonated water.
Floating until I rise above the mountains that crave to be seen.
Carve the spaces of belonging.
Feel as effortless as water caving through solid stone.
Float down the river into the mouth of the sea.
Feeling no fear of the abyss.
 Oct 2020 BTW
Mose
Isolation
 Oct 2020 BTW
Mose
30 days of isolation
I didn’t know who I was when the world stopped turning.
When the objections that once defined fell flat like a heart line.
The death of the way that was.
  I was no longer written in the way I knew my self.
It scared me.
The way I could no longer sit with myself.
I couldn’t stop running.
The well turned into a drought.
& the rain came only once I cried.
I once lived in a rain forest.
Self-love as heavy as the water embedded on every oxygen molecule.
I asked her to stop.
Couldn’t seem to catch my breath...
But, I guess the point was to never grasp it?
 Oct 2020 BTW
ju
Little Witches
 Oct 2020 BTW
ju
We bathed on the carpet’s edge, in October light
made warm again by pimple-glass and wishful thinking.
We played games and we whispered- as if quiet
could conjure Safe from thin air, and noise conjure Evil.
We occupied the in-betweens; the hall, the stairs, the path.
Drew and drew and drew, with red-brick and chalk and dust.
We chewed the skin around our nails, until our fingers cried-
And when Dark came early, he found us fighting Monsters
in the Artex with our jagged little minds.
 Oct 2020 BTW
Mrs Timetable
Disquiet
 Oct 2020 BTW
Mrs Timetable
Screaming out
From the inside
Roaring as a train whistle
Only the restless can hear
And then...
Quickly
Fades away
It doesn't last long but it catches your attention and takes over
 Oct 2020 BTW
John Destalo
my little
blue heart
aches

it can’t speak

has feelings
but no words

to express them

so I take a walk
into a dark field

and lie down

surrounded by
yellow petals

I fell asleep in
the land of

the sunflower
and pray for

some of their
brightness

to leak into
my little blue

heart
 Oct 2020 BTW
ju
A mother's love
 Oct 2020 BTW
ju
Rain is dramatic, but short lived-
storms half-hearted.
Sun shines strong and low
through art-work cloud, and
finger-print-blooms rock and sway
on a whispering green-leaf sea.

October 2020 is the hot-sweet-tea
left outside my room, after the row I caused
when I was 15.
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