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Your waspish smile
     Stings me
Like a hypocritical barb from a jaded glance
     A subtle trip, within a slow dance

Alas…

Your Poison ain’t what it used to be!
At this late day
Have i begun to
Pray

This world
So beautiful

May

Remain
Told you a poem

Elastic relaxed

Thousand year word

You scold me

Warm and
Breathing
 Jul 2019 Tanisha Jackland
everly
i have 3 helpings of pollo guisada
the fat girl in me was still salivating from the saborrr
its soo good, gracias bamba thank you
she smiles at me
watching me take each bite to notice if i
somehow crunch on a bone and make a face to then
tell all the family in puerto rico that i
was disgusted at her food.
she takes a seat,
ghloe, why ju so skeeny mama
ju no eat en school ?

i look from my placemat with a water stain and to her,
i smirk
of coursee, it just disappears to i dont know where
she walks off back to the kitchen to start preparing tupperwares of her leftovers for my dads lunch breaks for the week
i went on my health app and logged my progress-
still nothing,
i thought about my inability to gain
ran up to my room and started to write.
i thought about one thousand things
when lying with the sun
each thought a dampen cloud
each cloud a Tattooed fish with wings
of words red one by one.

two-hundred-twenty words of Dread
and sorrow bled drippy through the sky.
red tears of dreams unsung had spread
so blinding past their eyes.

the other seven-hundred-eighty
sought sun spots sealed so sweetly
such Skies in haiti these fishes seek
eyes pour out dried completely

they splatter across all over my face
i taste musicical patterns and poetry and maths
their nebulous purpose encased like Gifts
opened too slowly to lie still in place.
 Jul 2019 Tanisha Jackland
Kevin
love

help me to dissolve

and become a part of you
 Jul 2019 Tanisha Jackland
Kevin
words no longer serve me
in expressing this fearful thing clearly
my arms must dot the i's
and my toes to cross the t's

my eyes and light will guide me
my mind will place my presence
and show you the direction
my heart decides to take

i want to meet you there
and have you feel my words; truly
How all colours
Merge
And we can see
A rainbow
Connecting sky
And earth.
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