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maw
i didn't want to be back here / how come im back here / you were the one that brought me here in the first place
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Jul 4, 2022
lie stranger (light friend #2)
today has been so long and so tiring; i think i should lie / down. the anxiety has me feeling like a stranger / a lot lately. it’s not the only thing getting me down
36
Apr 10, 2021
Burn
I'm the kind of girl who burns through guy friends like rubber on tiers, like sulfur on matches, like gasoline and kerosine and flameward moths. / But I don't want to burn through you. / We just go together so well—like puzzle pieces.
8
Mar 1, 2021
Prayer
"Oh God," she says, hands clasped together, fingers entwined, knees bent. / He doesn't answer; /he does. / /he answers with earnest, continued, devoted worship,
7
Mar 1, 2021
Remnants
Every little move, every soft step, every breath I take, / I am reminded of him; I am reminded that he was here. / I savor the subtle soreness, the secret that only we know
5
Mar 1, 2021
Sonnet For Meditation
I await him, naked, head bowed, kneeling / With leather and rope he binds me tightly / Deft hands’ feather touches send me reeling
14
Mar 1, 2021
Jazz
Is it too much to ask that we / just lay around with our / cigarettes and coffee and jazz
8
Mar 1, 2021
Reincarnation
Resurrected, I arose / for mornings thick with lust / and love and caffeine and naked kisses
8
Mar 1, 2021
Small Death
The French call an ****** / “la petite mort” or “the little death” / tango with lips, teeth, and tongue
6
Mar 1, 2021
Crescent
once I was a waning crescent, pale and thin—incomplete / a silver sliver of light peeking unwanted in between the / folds of the velvet, midnight sky
12
Mar 1, 2021
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