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The Buoy (My Boy)I was slowly floating farther from shore, / one look away and I was unmoored. / Every tear that I sh
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Jun 14, 2024
Orion's BeltMotorcycles and mistakes, / I was screaming "I love you" / through sound-proof glass / to a blind ma
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Mar 30, 2023
Most DaysI used to be / Wild / running barefoot over gravel, / galloping ponies, and bending / over to pick u
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Aug 30, 2020
ShipBlanket forts and battle ships / I have brought the waves and riptides / And the bow and the port an
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Dec 2, 2019
FertileSoft tousels of seasoning and / olive oiled / Skin, sweet like honey / Dew. / ripe and bursting. / D
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Dec 2, 2019
The Massachusetts TurnpikeWhite socks and heavy breathing. / Like lungs of cinnamon and cigarettes. / I want nothing more / th
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Dec 2, 2019
No Vacancy"All full up here!" / Windows packed to the brim / with goose down pillows and / little feathers flo
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Mar 11, 2019
02. 04. 19“I just wanted it to be Natural” she said. / The morning I stabbed my face / with an electric toothb
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Feb 6, 2019
Twenty DaysWe rode home / One rubber wheel after another / Drenched to the liver in rain and alcohol. / "Right
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May 10, 2014
BurnAll I wanted was to warm you, / rub your skin raw until you felt / the fevered blaze you've ignited
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Jan 6, 2014
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