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 Nov 2013 Pluto
Morgan
mid sentence
 Nov 2013 Pluto
Morgan
and i've noticed that
every receipt
from every place
we went to together
has a poem scribbled
on the back of it

i guess you just
made me feel
like writing
 Oct 2013 Pluto
BarelyABard
The last time I saw your eyes, I stopped breathing.
But I haven't seen them since I realized you never truly existed.

Only the reflection I created for you beside me did.
I turned my head one day and noticed you weren't there.
So I went searching the world and cried your name

Now I look around me at all the ones that could take your place and I hang my head.
You aren't out there.
You are in me and no one will ever be able to get closer until I find a way to live with you or leave you in the darkness.
 Oct 2013 Pluto
Morgan
The night is cool but this blanket is heavy
The only light is a soft street lamp's
silent flicker through closed curtains
The mint of toothpaste lingers on
the back of my tongue but other
than that, my body is numb
I am still; I am calm
It is one forty seven
and I crave you
so deeply that I swear I can smell
your skin in the air that hangs around me
I want to trace your collar bones
with my wrist
I want to feel your hips poking
into my side
I want the subtle warmth of
your nose on the back of my neck
I want to listen to you breathe
slowly and steadily into my ear
I crave you like hot chocolate
after the first snow fall of the year
each time the moon visits
and doesn't bring sleep with it

I need a lullaby sang
in your raspy voice
I need your thighs
stretched over my ribs;
Your body unfolding
in the morning's sun
I miss the way your yawn
carries on and on
like the quiet ending
to a slow song
 Oct 2013 Pluto
brooke
Sleep Tight.
 Oct 2013 Pluto
brooke
you cannot
unknow the
warmth of a
body.
(c) Brooke Otto

I can feel it in books.
 Oct 2013 Pluto
rained-on parade
I saw you today.

As you sat with half
of your face facing
away from me,
I prayed you would look at me.

You didn't then,
but you met me at the staircase,
laughed,
and disappeared from the landing.

I saw you today.

And I don't remember
much of anything else.
(But so much longer in my head)
 Oct 2013 Pluto
G C
There's a girl
 Oct 2013 Pluto
G C
There's a girl, sitting in front of the window,
waiting for your call
There's a girl, with bright brown eyes,
who's waiting for you to come
There's a girl, whose knees are shaking,
falling to the ground
There's a girl, whose eyes are leaking,
she knows you're gone
That was before,
Now,
There's a girl, with short dyed hair,
with a beer in hand
There's a girl, who's making out,
with the kind of guy she told you
she couldn't stand
There's a girl, crying at night,
writing your name on her skin
Only this time, she's not using a permanent marker,
so she can't erase it
She's carving your name,
to keep you forever
There's a girl,
You wouldn't recognize her,
But you should,
It's the ghost of the girl,
who used to be
Y o u r s
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