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 Mar 2016 hkr
brooke
unboxed.
 Mar 2016 hkr
brooke
we are encouraged to be light
but I beseech you to be heavy--
with your skin and hair and every
bone, with your gossamery soul--
a soul that could sink ships,

be heavy, you are much.
I've been keeping a small journal to log stanzas i think of while out and about.

(c) Brooke Otto 2016
 Mar 2016 hkr
September
Tangible
 Mar 2016 hkr
September
you were made of
good intentions, thin hips,
and soft shoulders.

i was weak,
with bruised knees,
and thought with my lips.


if we were to ever agree on a god:
he would be physical—and he
would know our secrets.



he would be made out of them.
"i feel so lost without her"
Byrd Joel, Red House Painters.
 Mar 2016 hkr
hello
Trigger
 Mar 2016 hkr
hello
Matching spaces in between our ribs
I count the bones in your vertabrae
Its romantic to me and I'm in love
With the feeling of being
Empty
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