Katie Clark: Poems

Sep 2014 · 298

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I want you
To light me on fire

Sep 2014 · 327

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**** everything
But especially,
*******

Sep 2014 · 323

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Things you wouldn't guess
All bound up
And bleeding
Hapless joy among the wreckage

Sep 2014 · 368

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A withered bouquet
Of gin blossoms

Sep 2014 · 267

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She gets off on danger
Moaning
Against the chill of a loaded .45

Sep 2014 · 222

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Your eyes were the color of the ocean
I couldn't swim

Sep 2014 · 272

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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The call of the void sweeps through me
Like a tide
I will climb to fall

Sep 2014 · 220

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Please don't love me
I am woefully transient

Sep 2014 · 172

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The subtle art of living
Until you die

Sep 2014 · 213

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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Let me hold you close
Love on my lips
Arson in my heart

Sep 2014 · 168

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My ribs rattle when I exhale your name

Sep 2014 · 164

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I will breathe
Until it kills me

Sep 2014 · 156

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We all fall in love
With the things that will destroy us

Sep 2014 · 175

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Fleeing who you were
To get away from who you are

Sep 2014 · 191

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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That's pretty dark
Isn't it?
He asked, seeing my blood.
Lover,
I love you,
Do you understand subtext?

Sep 2014 · 151

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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Is this time
the last time?

Sep 2014 · 162

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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He was a metaphor

Sep 2014 · 157

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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The rain starts
and so do I

Sep 2014 · 230

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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A boy more chalkdust than memory
A girl more Jekyll than Hyde

Sep 2014 · 180

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Exhaling shadows

Sep 2014 · 157

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We could have destroyed each other
We could have saved each other

Sep 2014 · 306

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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You are the art
of decomposition, self-fulfilling prophecy
I am the subtext
You never learned to read

Sep 2014 · 281

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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I recoil from a gentle hand
preferring instead the witch's bottle of your smile.

Sep 2014 · 181

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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Yours
No matter how loudly I insist otherwise

Sep 2014 · 153

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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They lit me on fire
Now I burn days like dried leaves

Sep 2014 · 147

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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The weight of words
The weight of silence

Sep 2014 · 141

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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Night closes and we spin glass from memory.

Sep 2014 · 227

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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Premonitions of schadenfreude.

Sep 2014 · 205

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Katie Clark Sep 2014

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You hurt me in all ways
Delicious and despicable

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