nicole-hammond
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a prayer
dear god of needle prick and poisoned well
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i pray you find my mother
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cold and dry and unfeeling
2m
Aug 23, 2016
red sky in the morning
i watch the sun rise at my mother's feet on a monday morning. i watch my mother writhe as i watch he
1m
Jul 27, 2016
exodus
my mother traded her body for a future tense. my mother gave her flesh as ransom for a life cancer h
1m
Jul 7, 2016
heat of formation
there's a summer growing in my mother
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there's something burning
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blistering something soft
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my m
3m
May 26, 2016
sunburn
everything that smokes isn't always a gun
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but sometimes it is
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God doesn't always come in a pilla
1m
May 12, 2016
the future
what i see is a generation of funeral pyres
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what i see is children being scattered like
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seeds sc
2m
Apr 19, 2016
the streets change their names
i took a lighter to all the love i had left
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left the ashes in a coffee can on the mantle
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like a
1m
Mar 25, 2016
runs in the family
when this sickness has become the identity of your anatomy every scratch that doesn't bleed out is a
1m
Feb 25, 2016
in the beginning
a star of burning conscience falls out of orbit and you find yourself, a moon, on a collision course
1m
Feb 16, 2016
quasar
i still wonder if you feel like a black hole without me.
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i wanna know if i could ever hold you
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i
1m
Feb 15, 2016
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