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 Sep 2021 touka
Kelly
body.
 Sep 2021 touka
Kelly
her body reminds me of yours
so last night i dreamt of it
if  i can't have love
 Sep 2021 touka
Kelly
scary.
 Sep 2021 touka
Kelly
i was told not to idolize my favorite practice
of looking in the mirror and baring my teeth
at every disgusting piece of me

i'm not despondent
in this image
but rather fond
of my ability to embrace the monsters
within me
and still find it quite easy to breathe

isn't that a little scary?
all of this is temporary
 Sep 2021 touka
Kelly
access.
 Sep 2021 touka
Kelly
Access is wonderful, isn’t it
To somebody who’s never had it

So have fun with a better version
Of the things I have to work so hard to be

Because you have access to the things
That don’t come easy for me
Not Without weight in my screams
And the skin of my teeth

Because famous friends
And opportunity
Were never given to me

So I’ll kindly be lesser
Work harder
Cry often
And stick a sock in whatever stings the surface of my skin
Or the pits of my stomach

Because I’m still the ******* villain
im just a knock off
 Sep 2021 touka
Kelly
fall.
 Sep 2021 touka
Kelly
the moment the air starts to bite
with the shrillness of fall
my chest fills with light
and my thoughts

circle cyclically
over
and
over
of only your body

pressing me against the wall
and the pressure of your hips
slipping
and fitting
so effortlessly
into the crevices
of me

and I'd die
to know that feeling
you. and. me.
 Sep 2021 touka
Kelly
air.
 Sep 2021 touka
Kelly
i've finally learned how to tighten my throat

and still let the air go
 Sep 2021 touka
Mary Anne Norton
I wander for words
Through hallways of
Humanity
Where words are
Easily found
And sadly displaced
A dictionary cannot
Describe
But perhaps feelings
Can
she sits on the floor
crosslegged
trying to calm
her mind
as she cannot decide
whether she really
is a poet
or just imagining
to be a poet
 Sep 2021 touka
ryn
Burden
 Sep 2021 touka
ryn
.
”If you are to love,
love freely and unburdened
by the tombstones
of past miscalculated regrets.”


But the heart
inadvertently beats
to the mismatched rhythms
of a hundred
caged doves’ wings.
 Jun 2021 touka
Donall Dempsey
HALF SICK WITH SHADOWS



The Lady of Shallot
sat on my sofa and sobbed

begging me for
poetical asylum

despite Patel's crackdown
on poetry refugees.

I made her a nice
cup of Earl Grey tea

slice of lemon
no sugar.

I enquired of her
"But why me?"

"You have loved me
all your life

letting me live
inside your head

free to roam
around your mind

any old time
no questions asked.

I thought of you as
you thought of me.

We are of one mind now
...are we not?"

She explained her name was Elaine
and had been a time traveller and that

when her 'mirror' cracked
(as she called her machine)

Tennyson trapped her
in that poem of his

words to the left of her
words to the right of her

into the volume
of his verse

she found herself
all of a sudden.

God how she hated
dead Victorian poets.

And it was all a pack of lies
and Lance a Lot was a ****.

She had constantly turned down
his incessant facebook friend requests.

And as for facebook
that was just a big yuk.

Oh and she hated shallots
( and green onions )

although she thought
Booker T. and the MG's

groovy and such fun
to dance to.

"Tennyson was so morose
and such a class 1 bore."

But now she had broken free
and had come to me.

No more teens made at me
for having to learn me off by heart.

I fixed her 'mirror.
It was only cracked.

She could have escaped
at any time but I hadn't

the heart
to tell her that.

Fixed her up with a new
facebook page LoS777.

And in a twinkling she
had vanished into where ever?

"I'll leave a door open
always in my mind!"

I shouted to the shadows
and the nothingness.

The willows whitened.
The aspens quivered.
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