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"clavicles" poems
Through the naked crest of your back The dips above your clavicles And the way I lunge at your jaw. Through pale hands and swollen lips And heavy eyes It echoes Resonates through thin air And seeps into the cracks of the walls The way it collides with your skin And buries through the flesh That moment, awakening, I got through You know now how much I love you
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Nov 10, 2014
Nov 10, 2014 at 1:13 AM UTC
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you are inches measured by miles away bulldozing oriental food you don't intend on eating around your plate and i am imagining the translation of asking for a broom in a foreign language for when you shatter over small talk or the first sentence to start with "so" breaks you into shaking that i can feel from across the table and i am thinking now about tectonics and how you must be daydreaming of being submerged in a book back home or gripping tightly to bedsheets begging for familiar warmth i can tell by the way you are looking at me that you are feigning our salutation embrace seconds drowned in ankle deep water and i wonder if you see my hands as jackhammers and if the reason why you hug so hard but only for a moment is to be as sharp as possible so that i do not smell your perfume or notice that you aren't wearing any and why there are few suprises in the safe you claim is a mouth where shades of plush pink hide a sickly pallor and i continue to look over brick & mortar borders and think how maybe she is thinking of kissing but certainly not me not these apologies nailed to my face i give myself a moment of benefitted doubt that you sometimes picture your frame under mine and if your clavicles would crack if i were to touch them i am sorry that i am a victim of imagination but i swear i chalk it up as the forgotten feeling for when you look up and the person you are looking at is gazing directly at you you have painted yourself as a mosaic in my mind as a mess of dust & incoherent words that all sound like please in my ears but that doesn't explain why my hands are the ones that are shaking when i imagine you imagining me in the spaces of yourself where you've forgotten you could put someone
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Feb 26, 2014
Feb 26, 2014 at 7:32 PM UTC
you sometimes bite your lip during laughter
you are inches measured by miles away bulldozing oriental food you don't intend on eating around your plate and i am imagining the translation of asking for a broom in a foreign language for when you shatter over small talk or the first sentence to start with "so" breaks you into shaking that i can feel from across the table and i am thinking now about tectonics and how you must be daydreaming of being submerged in a book back home or gripping tightly to bedsheets begging for familiar warmth i can tell by the way you are looking at me that you are feigning our salutation embrace seconds drowned in ankle deep water and i wonder if you see my hands as jackhammers and if the reason why you hug so hard but only for a moment is to be as sharp as possible so that i do not smell your perfume or notice that you aren't wearing any and why there are few suprises in the safe you claim is a mouth where shades of plush pink hide a sickly pallor and i continue to look over brick & mortar borders and think how maybe she is thinking of kissing but certainly not me not these apologies nailed to my face i give myself a moment of benefitted doubt that you sometimes picture your frame under mine and if your clavicles would crack if i were to touch them i am sorry that i am a victim of imagination but i swear i chalk it up as the forgotten feeling for when you look up and the person you are looking at is gazing directly at you you have painted yourself as a mosaic in my mind as a mess of dust & incoherent words that all sound like please in my ears but that doesn't explain why my hands are the ones that are shaking when i imagine you imagining me in the spaces of yourself where you've forgotten you could put someone
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So from your hand, I learned to drink the light... A residue of dahlias in their late summer blood, rimmed white with the fluid evening, the soul, some wild falcon folded in golden lullabies of nightingale acoustics... Eclipsed by the gentle pathos of the body, shining as I leave it behind, crying in its dark thorns, some forlorn fragment shudders in the silver embrace you lace with calm... As it laps into that crumpled karma and dreams it was once a jaguar of dark passages, held in the long hands of sorrow, see, these clavicles emerge through orchids... And a liquid resurrection envelope the earth you bathe from the fugitive gesture of wings, so, it was in these black, grim prairies of the soul... Where I at last learned to drink the light from your hand....
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Sep 5, 2012
Sep 5, 2012 at 1:32 PM UTC
Pathos Of Dream:
I see the mole. It lies just south of his petite clavicles, parenthesizing his fragile neck. I'd like to find the others. Moles dotting his figure, beacons on his frame. Showing me where to touch. I'll map them all out, every last speck. Just call me the cartographer. I'll connect the dots, drawing lines, building routes with my fingertips. Your body will be mapped like the Silk Road. But no ideas will be exchanged, nor words spoken. No empires will be connected across this globe. Only moles.
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Jul 20, 2012
Jul 20, 2012 at 12:40 PM UTC
Moles
I am not ashamed to love you As i sit here and cry I am not ashamed to have love-d you. No I am not ashamed to cry for you. I am not ashamed to love you. With every fibre of my being. With every sin, with every moral with every, ****** hair on my head. I am not afraid to love you. I am more afraid of not loving you, than loving you. I am afraid of you loving me. I am more afraid of you loving me more than i have even been afraid in my life. Because than that makes love real. I lost my love a long time way back when. It's not important. There's details in the details. But my faith in loving you will not wane, falter, stop or die. I am not ashamed to cry waterfalls of salty tears into my hands for you. I am not ashamed of messaging you 3am in the morning to see how you are. and getting no reply. I am not ashamed to know that my attempts to love you are futile. Yes, you. You who would want to punch me in the face, the throat, the clavicles of my heart to stop me, from loving, you. I am not ashamed to love you like you were my only love. I will sing for you in the car my love, i will hold your hand, i will bake you muffins, My love. And you would want to **** my very smile with your eyes. I am not ashamed to lie on my bathroom floor with arms in my chest, with pain in my stomach, and my eyes blind, from loving, you. I am not. I am not. I am not. I am not ashamed to be the laughing stock of my friends, family and lovers past; for loving losers like you, for loving someone like you, for loving someone who didn't deserve me, treated me like **** beat me, use me, washed me up and dried me out, hung me out. No i am not ashamed. I am not ashamed to cry these tears because i lost you. I am not ashamed to cry these tears because i am not in your arms. For my heart beats strong. For all these years, through all these lovers, through all these partners, through all these ****** ******* tears. For i love you more, each day. For in this world where there is more hatred, pain, sorrow, suffering and loss I would rather be ashamed for loving you, than hating you for loving you once. 'We can only truly hate something we once also loved' Logic eh? What else makes sense in this world?
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Mar 10, 2013
Mar 10, 2013 at 2:18 PM UTC
I am ashamed
I am not ashamed to love you As i sit here and cry I am not ashamed to have love-d you. No I am not ashamed to cry for you. I am not ashamed to love you. With every fibre of my being. With every sin, with every moral with every, ****** hair on my head. I am not afraid to love you. I am more afraid of not loving you, than loving you. I am afraid of you loving me. I am more afraid of you loving me more than i have even been afraid in my life. Because than that makes love real. I lost my love a long time way back when. It's not important. There's details in the details. But my faith in loving you will not wane, falter, stop or die. I am not ashamed to cry waterfalls of salty tears into my hands for you. I am not ashamed of messaging you 3am in the morning to see how you are. and getting no reply. I am not ashamed to know that my attempts to love you are futile. Yes, you. You who would want to punch me in the face, the throat, the clavicles of my heart to stop me, from loving, you. I am not ashamed to love you like you were my only love. I will sing for you in the car my love, i will hold your hand, i will bake you muffins, My love. And you would want to **** my very smile with your eyes. I am not ashamed to lie on my bathroom floor with arms in my chest, with pain in my stomach, and my eyes blind, from loving, you. I am not. I am not. I am not. I am not ashamed to be the laughing stock of my friends, family and lovers past; for loving losers like you, for loving someone like you, for loving someone who didn't deserve me, treated me like **** beat me, use me, washed me up and dried me out, hung me out. No i am not ashamed. I am not ashamed to cry these tears because i lost you. I am not ashamed to cry these tears because i am not in your arms. For my heart beats strong. For all these years, through all these lovers, through all these partners, through all these ****** ******* tears. For i love you more, each day. For in this world where there is more hatred, pain, sorrow, suffering and loss I would rather be ashamed for loving you, than hating you for loving you once. 'We can only truly hate something we once also loved' Logic eh? What else makes sense in this world?
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like thighs                    (shes got 'em) them thick as ******* thighs all skin and creamy and the backs o' her knees taste so good                       (like sugar shes got 'em) and that dark little spider web o' ink shes got coming up her shoulders out over her clavicles shes got her neat little muscles under it all bunching and loosing muscles when she's (head down biting 300 thread count) her hands don't lie gripping and grabbing snaring sheets and,                                              ,                                                                                  ,
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Oct 5, 2011
Oct 5, 2011 at 4:02 PM UTC
like thighs
I have wished for years That my collarbones would make themselves Known. That my muscles would Atrophy. And my skin would become Paper thin. All for the sake of exposing the calcified lattice That holds me together. Holds me down. I have wished to see my ribs So that I could better understand the bars that my heart Beats so fiercely against. I have wished my spine to rise from beneath sinew Form peaks against my skin Just so I can see What makes a man What backbone is See what makes me Stand Against those things that I do not desire. Yet here I am. Synapses stretched between Head And Heart Eyes sundered, seeing what my heart can't take. What my fragile fingers fail to grasp. I am a graveyard. Made of stars that decided they were meant for other tasks. Rub your charcol across my bones Just to see what stories the universe has told. For it has lived and died a thousand times, and now And now, this time around it chooses to call this body Home. So although there are days I wish my hip bones would rise like Mountains In the desert, That this soft skin would part and give Rise To bones like Aspen trees, I will accept that my Clavicles Are the bottom of the sea bed. And I am Mile Upon Mile Of stormy ocean. Still waiting to explored.
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Apr 14, 2016
Apr 14, 2016 at 1:32 PM UTC
On My Collarbones
talent -- that double edged sword or sleepless dove with derringer wings the ability to break yourself open let others look inside your chest and find the notorious self-doubt pimpled succulent you keep fertilizing because old habits never actually die and the huge romantic idealism of the old farmhouse heart with crooked creaking screendoor white paint chipped windowsill the enduring softness of eyelashes left there flies gorging themselves growing fat from the dishes in the sink and prickly leg hair still clutching the drain sentimental tractor asleep in the barn next to the weak ego rusted crowbar the ivy-moss growing thick out there perfect nostalgia really misplaced for sepia tone memories i was never part of a heart full of tongues and cute thighs and backs of knees that i've never seen lungs under clavicles filled with patient lovers breaths never breathed digging deeper with small fingers for smooth freckled scapula flesh that has never found warm pink rest inside my cheap cotton sheets -- i know that i have some
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Aug 8, 2015
Aug 8, 2015 at 9:25 AM UTC
sentimental tractor
Thou tangle the mortality And seek the mourning of its course, With an outrageous cloak  that falls adrift To have its custom afloat. The decorations,  thereof flatters this turmoil That has its doubts and moments, A longevity beheld upon the chores of the subject, Never cognizes its everlasting trials, For those of which handles the elation Of successive falsification. I know not of the clumsiness of hymns, That sighs the mourning of a course, The chaotic iteration of single pauses And the faltering of a mere slope. I know not of the turmoil That bedecks the frostbitten clavicles, Onto which no sigh wavers A petition of no faze and any dome. I know not of the cloak That nestles around a haze; Bringing confusion that betrays every vivid sense. Let it be the matter, ‘tis a matter of time(!) Would it morph itself around the mourning mould, When it dries away with the mud?
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Oct 7, 2018
Oct 7, 2018 at 6:17 PM UTC
The Cloak
*When I was younger, I wanted to be an astronaut. I told myself, "I want to see the stars and the planets up-close." I think probably we all had that stage in childhood where we all wished to be space walkers like Armstrong. But eight years later, now I don't wish to be an astronaut anymore. I wish to be a writer. Because I have already seen all of the stars and the nebulae in your eyes. I wonder how they all got condensed in those two small circles like the moon. I whisper to myself, "It's so lustrous." I already felt the weightlessness of space in your kisses, and your hugs are like oxygen tanks -- I need them to breathe. And when I see you-- just looking at your gait and smelling your perfume is even more enthralling than being in a launching rocket ship that pierces through the clouds and breaks the invisible mantle that separates the Earthly skies from the cosmic tapestry called "the rest of the universe". And I float away from reality and just revolve around the idea of you and nothing more like how the satellites of Jupiter revolve around it almost eternally. I don't need to see the constellations anymore nor the planets or the meteors because I have seen them all in your skin-- I painted them on your skin. Others might call it bruises, but they do not understand that your body-- your neck, your arms, your chest are empty spaces and it'd feel like a sin not to embellish them with love marks -- the bruises that do not scream pain but* I love you's. *And I love you. More than all the splendor of space, I still find your hair and the arch of your back and the gaps between your fingers and your clavicles so much more beautiful. Even this galaxy we live in seem to be unfit for its name: Milky Way. I think that name suits better your complexion alone. And when you smile-- oh, your smile! -- it is more radiant than the brightest comet and more warm than the hottest blue star; even the sun in the most arid summer-- it just gives me sunburns, but your smile, only yours, renders my heart melted. When I was younger, I wanted to be an astronaut because I wanted to see the space. But now I don't anymore. Because I learned that astronauts are just spectators and I want to write about the universe. I want to write about you.*
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Oct 19, 2015
Oct 19, 2015 at 12:16 AM UTC
Astronaut
*When I was younger, I wanted to be an astronaut. I told myself, "I want to see the stars and the planets up-close." I think probably we all had that stage in childhood where we all wished to be space walkers like Armstrong. But eight years later, now I don't wish to be an astronaut anymore. I wish to be a writer. Because I have already seen all of the stars and the nebulae in your eyes. I wonder how they all got condensed in those two small circles like the moon. I whisper to myself, "It's so lustrous." I already felt the weightlessness of space in your kisses, and your hugs are like oxygen tanks -- I need them to breathe. And when I see you-- just looking at your gait and smelling your perfume is even more enthralling than being in a launching rocket ship that pierces through the clouds and breaks the invisible mantle that separates the Earthly skies from the cosmic tapestry called "the rest of the universe". And I float away from reality and just revolve around the idea of you and nothing more like how the satellites of Jupiter revolve around it almost eternally. I don't need to see the constellations anymore nor the planets or the meteors because I have seen them all in your skin-- I painted them on your skin. Others might call it bruises, but they do not understand that your body-- your neck, your arms, your chest are empty spaces and it'd feel like a sin not to embellish them with love marks -- the bruises that do not scream pain but* I love you's. *And I love you. More than all the splendor of space, I still find your hair and the arch of your back and the gaps between your fingers and your clavicles so much more beautiful. Even this galaxy we live in seem to be unfit for its name: Milky Way. I think that name suits better your complexion alone. And when you smile-- oh, your smile! -- it is more radiant than the brightest comet and more warm than the hottest blue star; even the sun in the most arid summer-- it just gives me sunburns, but your smile, only yours, renders my heart melted. When I was younger, I wanted to be an astronaut because I wanted to see the space. But now I don't anymore. Because I learned that astronauts are just spectators and I want to write about the universe. I want to write about you.*
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YADA TASHY ( "Originator Stone" ) Outside the first snow falls. Her wounds are photographed. Spoken of. Described in detail. Technical. The overhead microphone takes it all in. Being dead she is more naked than she ever was. Stripped of her humanity. She had ceased to be who she used to be. She is now merely a cadaver. The autopsy can not tell her name. She is Kuzuku. Her mother called her KuKu. She had been born with a caul. KuKu was pregnant. She was going to call the child if it was a girl . . .Yuki. She couldn't conceive what she would call it if a boy? It was always going to be a girl. She liked candyfloss and her hair up. Now her hair is down. It touches her shoulders. As if her hair were still alive. The autopsy wound by wound tells of the hell of her dying. The voice is deadpan. Mechanical. The coroner breaks for coffee. Bitter.  Black. "Ya da!" as the Turks say. "...with nothing..." *** Kuzuku was named after the flowering plant/rampant **** Her mother always drank a tea made from it. Only her mother called her her pet name; "Kuku!" Her blacker than black hair always seemed like a living entity in itself as it danced upon her shoulders or splashed over her clavicles. She always wore off the shoulder dresses or tops even in winter cold. I once told her she had the cutest clavicles( "rekishi no naka de kawaī sakotsu" )in history which....always made her laugh. I told her she had well tempered clavicles and she laughed even more when the pun was explained to her. She had been born with a caul...a red caul. She it was who told me the Turkish tale or the Yada Daşı and of the Yadachy. She had just met the man who would eventually stab her to death and she was greatly in love with him and his culture. All these little scraps of humanity could not be disclosed by the autopsy which could never tell of how beautiful she was and what a joy she was to be around. Her death was a horror tale told by a friend of a friend of a friend and hard to comprehend or believe.
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Aug 27, 2016
Aug 27, 2016 at 6:12 AM UTC
YADA TASHY ( "Originator Stone" )
YADA TASHY ( "Originator Stone" ) Outside the first snow falls. Her wounds are photographed. Spoken of. Described in detail. Technical. The overhead microphone takes it all in. Being dead she is more naked than she ever was. Stripped of her humanity. She had ceased to be who she used to be. She is now merely a cadaver. The autopsy can not tell her name. She is Kuzuku. Her mother called her KuKu. She had been born with a caul. KuKu was pregnant. She was going to call the child if it was a girl . . .Yuki. She couldn't conceive what she would call it if a boy? It was always going to be a girl. She liked candyfloss and her hair up. Now her hair is down. It touches her shoulders. As if her hair were still alive. The autopsy wound by wound tells of the hell of her dying. The voice is deadpan. Mechanical. The coroner breaks for coffee. Bitter.  Black. "Ya da!" as the Turks say. "...with nothing..." *** Kuzuku was named after the flowering plant/rampant **** Her mother always drank a tea made from it. Only her mother called her her pet name; "Kuku!" Her blacker than black hair always seemed like a living entity in itself as it danced upon her shoulders or splashed over her clavicles. She always wore off the shoulder dresses or tops even in winter cold. I once told her she had the cutest clavicles( "rekishi no naka de kawaī sakotsu" )in history which....always made her laugh. I told her she had well tempered clavicles and she laughed even more when the pun was explained to her. She had been born with a caul...a red caul. She it was who told me the Turkish tale or the Yada Daşı and of the Yadachy. She had just met the man who would eventually stab her to death and she was greatly in love with him and his culture. All these little scraps of humanity could not be disclosed by the autopsy which could never tell of how beautiful she was and what a joy she was to be around. Her death was a horror tale told by a friend of a friend of a friend and hard to comprehend or believe.
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i used to think my body would look prettier in a casket but i spent hours looking at it in a mirror anyway. sometimes I feel like my body doesn’t want me in it anymore, or like my mind is trying to trick me into leaving. my aching limbs and tired heart make me feel like my body has been around for longer than I’ve been in it. it's only just now starting to feel like it's mine because when enough grown men yell at you from their pickup trucks and enough frat boys shout at you from their porches, you start to learn that your body isn’t really yours, and it took me too long to be upset about that. because when i stopped eating, i was the only one who could feel that pit in my stomach, and the only one who had to live in my exhausted body. and i’m still not sure if i liked that or not, but i do know that it made me feel strong. and it took me too long to unlearn that feeling. that safe feeling i’d get when i was all wrapped up in my hip bones and clavicles and the waist i was always so scared to spill out of. it took me years to learn that a cold heart isn't a blessing but my feet still haven't gotten the message i carry worry in my teeth and shyness in my ankles, i’m filled to the brim with feelings that mix together so much, i can't tell which is which anymore, and i overflow so often that i should be drowning in saltwater by now. my heart races so fast, it's a miracle i’m still alive. but on those days when i’m held together with safety pins and good intentions when i wear lipstick like armor and couldn't look you in the eyes if i tried i will curl my knees against my chest and hope that that will be enough to keep me in my body. my body, that’s filled with endless love and cruelty but not enough courage it’s an argument i can’t win it's a house i’m locked inside of, but i’m not planning on going anywhere.
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Aug 28, 2013
Aug 28, 2013 at 11:29 PM UTC
my body is a broken home
i used to think my body would look prettier in a casket but i spent hours looking at it in a mirror anyway. sometimes I feel like my body doesn’t want me in it anymore, or like my mind is trying to trick me into leaving. my aching limbs and tired heart make me feel like my body has been around for longer than I’ve been in it. it's only just now starting to feel like it's mine because when enough grown men yell at you from their pickup trucks and enough frat boys shout at you from their porches, you start to learn that your body isn’t really yours, and it took me too long to be upset about that. because when i stopped eating, i was the only one who could feel that pit in my stomach, and the only one who had to live in my exhausted body. and i’m still not sure if i liked that or not, but i do know that it made me feel strong. and it took me too long to unlearn that feeling. that safe feeling i’d get when i was all wrapped up in my hip bones and clavicles and the waist i was always so scared to spill out of. it took me years to learn that a cold heart isn't a blessing but my feet still haven't gotten the message i carry worry in my teeth and shyness in my ankles, i’m filled to the brim with feelings that mix together so much, i can't tell which is which anymore, and i overflow so often that i should be drowning in saltwater by now. my heart races so fast, it's a miracle i’m still alive. but on those days when i’m held together with safety pins and good intentions when i wear lipstick like armor and couldn't look you in the eyes if i tried i will curl my knees against my chest and hope that that will be enough to keep me in my body. my body, that’s filled with endless love and cruelty but not enough courage it’s an argument i can’t win it's a house i’m locked inside of, but i’m not planning on going anywhere.
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Oh,       how your words drown my tormented soul in                     nothing but their warm currents,                             they caress down my neck and rest themselves on my chest                                               to find my uneven heartbeat nonetheless.                                                                                                        And,                                                                          I regret to inform you                                       my wants stay hidden with time & space above                           for I had never imagined,       that it would be me you to want love A dream,      the only comparison I would find suitable to describe you                                                     one million miles away,                                                            next time you wander the streets at night                                                                          find my reflection in the puddles                                                                               seeping through your woven fibre shoes                                                                      I find myself hoping,                                                       not to lose you for that would be a calamity I could not bear                 I would never hear my name on your lips                                    Or feel your steady hands make their way through my hair                                                                  At the top of your lungs,                                                       sing to me                     for I long to hear your voice        & this time, the waves will carry it close to me Daisy petals & orchid blooms           rest tentatively in the concave of my neck                   a pattern of small petals reveal themselves past my clavicles                          down my sternum                                covering the rosy buds atop my soft breast                                               Sir,                                         will you brush them away                                   with a kiss?                                                                     give me                                   someone                                                          to hold                               give me                                                     starlit hours,      seconds,                    to miss.
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Jan 8, 2014
Jan 8, 2014 at 7:32 PM UTC
Letter 2: Petals On The Bed
Oh,       how your words drown my tormented soul in                     nothing but their warm currents,                             they caress down my neck and rest themselves on my chest                                               to find my uneven heartbeat nonetheless.                                                                                                        And,                                                                          I regret to inform you                                       my wants stay hidden with time & space above                           for I had never imagined,       that it would be me you to want love A dream,      the only comparison I would find suitable to describe you                                                     one million miles away,                                                            next time you wander the streets at night                                                                          find my reflection in the puddles                                                                               seeping through your woven fibre shoes                                                                      I find myself hoping,                                                       not to lose you for that would be a calamity I could not bear                 I would never hear my name on your lips                                    Or feel your steady hands make their way through my hair                                                                  At the top of your lungs,                                                       sing to me                     for I long to hear your voice        & this time, the waves will carry it close to me Daisy petals & orchid blooms           rest tentatively in the concave of my neck                   a pattern of small petals reveal themselves past my clavicles                          down my sternum                                covering the rosy buds atop my soft breast                                               Sir,                                         will you brush them away                                   with a kiss?                                                                     give me                                   someone                                                          to hold                               give me                                                     starlit hours,      seconds,                    to miss.
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He said: "Of all the chat sites in all the internet, she walked into the one I happen to use." He was drunk when they first spoke. But she was too enthralled by the fact that he thought she had good taste in music to notice. It had taken her years to train her ears to appreciate the sound of a bass solo and learn to distinguish the no name bands worth knowing, from those that were not. She had an appreciation for clavicles and wrote too many poems about what love was, wasn't, and should be. She liked to pretend that she hated cliches, yet her favorite movie was chalk full of them. She said: "I dig you." She dug so many things about him. He had so much worth digging. His love of the ocean and all things aquatic. His green-gray eyes. His general lack of amusement with things of the romantic sort. He was too sincere to ever use lols and fancied himself most competitive cooking shows. And though he'd never driven a car, he had been para-sailing. She said: "You're my person." He said" "Make the world your person." So they continued on in their mutual amusement, exchanging selfies, sweaters and songs. They spoke a unique language consisting of puns snark lyrics and innuendo.
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Sep 22, 2013
Sep 22, 2013 at 1:02 AM UTC
Favourite Person Ever
You are a radar-buzz, I feel the jitter when you are around. It is stony, it is inescapable, but I do not mind. I might want it, even if it weren’t yours. For your shake I have my own, like a thousand peacocks, enhancing themselves for their mates. Already too bright. And what they are, I cannot say, not much better than my midnight jolt when I go dancing in you. Dilate your clavicles, sweet: I am diving inward. I think you sound like suicide inside, do not want to admit you hate life. So your body speaks for you. That, the drone, it travels me in, Love you like a son, a brother, a husband, and cannot decide which is moving.
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Oct 28, 2012
Oct 28, 2012 at 5:30 PM UTC
a radar buzz
Unravel me. Plunge your fingers into the depths of my anatomy- wade into my rufescent flesh, strum my fibers, find me in the fissures of my ivory bones--- then come back to the surface, cling to the brims of my clavicles, and tell me how beautiful I am.
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Mar 8, 2021
Mar 8, 2021 at 8:40 AM UTC
Fissures and Clavicles
When you can't go outside in the cold Cause it hurts your bones; And you've caused self inflicted mayhem On every surface of your skin When the night is your only cherished friend It comforts your deceiving soul And sings you a fast tempo lullaby -Kellie A Scranton
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May 21, 2017
May 21, 2017 at 4:44 AM UTC
"Sharp Clavicles"
White Man! White Man! You dare come and conquer this country? This corner of the continent Construct your castles with crystal windows Looking out on a foaming sea Model your marble walls, polished and pristine On your porcelain teeth: terrible and tough Paint clouds on the ceiling with paper fingers Papyrus skin crumpling with age Your knights galloped in on young geldings Castrated to keep them clean Like the sterile white cloths draped across their clavicles You’d scar this landscape With a squat whitewashed town Matt and peeling Dishevelled and overgrown Black Man! Black Man! You dare come and claim this country? My corner of the continent Behind boulders and barren hills Coalfires choke the burned sky I’m breathing in your smoke but at night Your bullet-holes in the firmament glint As stars glimpse the belching flame Of your volcanic pride Your bearded bishops bludgeoning The bloodied populace of pockets of resistance Scorched brown eyes smouldering From here to the horizon Of mournful ashen mountains, blunt and black You’d build your walls of black onyx Cold, hard and brutal So let the battle-lines be drawn Let us duel to the death until we mix Into that emotional grey area between man and man: Peace
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Apr 24, 2013
Apr 24, 2013 at 4:03 PM UTC
Chess
I sat outside for hours last night. I sat outside under the same July stars twinkling new under an icy, November moon, shoulders still bare and hair tied back, looking for the misplaced summer in an anxious fall. I didn't find it. I found cigarette ashes clinging to the fur of my boots. I found crystalline fog glazed cold to my skin. I drew childish hearts and arrows in the ghost of my breath and traced glassy teardrops clinging to sweatshirt sleeves. I sat outside for hours last night until even my lungs stiffened with the cold. My clavicles stung with the prickling of snow and my fingertips ached with the effort of clinging-- to grass, to wood, to paper, to smoke, to snowflakes falling through liquid-like air, to memories, to monsters, to you and to me. But I couldn't hold us. We slipped like water through my clutching hands; we melted like rocks that never even were. We dripped, trickled, and fell like rain, and we evaporated in the blaze of an ending Indian summer. I sat outside for hours last night listening for lost crickets hiding sadly under leaves. They buried themselves too well for me, better than you ever will, it seems. You float, always just under the surface of an endless, salty sea no matter how much concrete I pour for your shoes. You never leave. But I sat outside for hours last night perfectly alone.
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Nov 9, 2013
Nov 9, 2013 at 12:46 AM UTC
hypothermia
I stood on the pill gray surface of a moon with my eyes closed against the pitch. Deafening silence encaptulates me swallowing every cell as I sit cross legged in the stomach of it. I felt her. The pump of her heartbeat colossal in the deep. I dissolve and recoagulate 20 trillion kilometers from her belly. White dwarf her ultraviolet laughter washes over me charring me black. Just beyond the speed of light I fight the cold vacuum spiraling  through fathomless rings of planet sized asteroids she has caught within her gravity. I accelerate through her categorizing every element naming some as I go. Her molten core flows pure silver. Radioactive, attractive in totality, she is stealing my electrons and I'm losing all equilibrium. With reckless abandon I arc through her nitrogen ice eyelashes and lips play supernova melting me again into a pool of shimmering metal reflecting her every facet fractaling in infinitum Eye couldn't capture unable to dilate in time. The mind could not comprehend it driving to madness decompressing time. Switching polarity with her smile I float awhile in her warmth basking in total integration. Resting on the glaciers of her clavicles. I run my lips on the molten surface of her neck, and my hands found the small of her back marble smooth in the bitter black. Hair of plasma on obsidian shoulders cradling me as I reform. Her finger  like Olympus Mans presses into my arm and she says something that I could not reproduce even after infinities of calculation. In this brand new mode she runs like code. Strands of proteins or DNA playing over mine becoming prime. The restorative gravity that brought us pulls atomicly until we are not.
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Mar 1, 2016
Mar 1, 2016 at 10:27 PM UTC
Lupus and the Pendulum
I stood on the pill gray surface of a moon with my eyes closed against the pitch. Deafening silence encaptulates me swallowing every cell as I sit cross legged in the stomach of it. I felt her. The pump of her heartbeat colossal in the deep. I dissolve and recoagulate 20 trillion kilometers from her belly. White dwarf her ultraviolet laughter washes over me charring me black. Just beyond the speed of light I fight the cold vacuum spiraling  through fathomless rings of planet sized asteroids she has caught within her gravity. I accelerate through her categorizing every element naming some as I go. Her molten core flows pure silver. Radioactive, attractive in totality, she is stealing my electrons and I'm losing all equilibrium. With reckless abandon I arc through her nitrogen ice eyelashes and lips play supernova melting me again into a pool of shimmering metal reflecting her every facet fractaling in infinitum Eye couldn't capture unable to dilate in time. The mind could not comprehend it driving to madness decompressing time. Switching polarity with her smile I float awhile in her warmth basking in total integration. Resting on the glaciers of her clavicles. I run my lips on the molten surface of her neck, and my hands found the small of her back marble smooth in the bitter black. Hair of plasma on obsidian shoulders cradling me as I reform. Her finger  like Olympus Mans presses into my arm and she says something that I could not reproduce even after infinities of calculation. In this brand new mode she runs like code. Strands of proteins or DNA playing over mine becoming prime. The restorative gravity that brought us pulls atomicly until we are not.
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sternum (n.) a bone extending along the middle line of the ventral portion of the body consisting of a flat, narrow bone connected with the clavicles and the true ribs. I remember taking an anatomy class in high school, we had to memorize the bones of the body - the skeletal system. Scapula, humerus, mandible all favorable to the tongue, but I never liked the word sternum, it sounds far too angry, nothing like the supple it actually is. Years later I would still find myself walking to work and naming them off. Bones on my mind. Tibia, ulna, femur, breastbone. Breastbone rolls around my mouth, lulls my anxiety towards its twin like a boat in calm waters. I think of your breastbone as a platform to profess my fascination. I am surprisingly amazed every time I count the steady rhythm of your heart, it's sound conducted as though your breastbone is a soundboard. I feel the slight ridges of your ribs when my head lays in the valley of your chest. There's not a day that I wouldn't love to get lost in the formations of your bones, each crevice a new place to hide - lounging in the curve of your collar bone, plucking the muscles of your fingers like guitar strings, getting lost to the soft scent of skin, and memorizing the plush roundness of your ******* each sensation leaves me with a new obsession. I look for replicas in everyday life, the hunt almost as intoxicating as smoke from campfires, or plucking wishbones from hens.
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Feb 9, 2014
Feb 9, 2014 at 5:30 PM UTC
sternum (n.)
it's the clavicles her the inching of the (her)the vulnerable teasing the at the edges pink the trimmed in neatness the amble of girlness palish ******* just and softer coiling hushed by an inch of boyness) she(the)her(the) by the way sir(the) i 'er the gonna perce ya a radiant by the folding o' yer faultless gleaming (spear to plunge) your heart and ***** a rill to let of crimson mangé
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Jul 31, 2013
Jul 31, 2013 at 1:51 PM UTC
Untitled
Im coming of age In the era of the devoid Hollow greed seeps unearned from elephanitus of love all the dead *** heads and the glorifed child **** stars live in tandem with virginity commerce a descriptive high full of lies here we are raised to never forget the look on a beautiful girls face when the zippers break and all the mallets fall when mud and blood and ***** mix to a collegiate concoction Leaving her to bear the scabbing burns The openings the ambrosia flesh wounds The giant stamp of pulsing indecency The markings don’t go so well with her hollow moon smiles They don’t blend with her regal clavicles To bend them in with a wrench Would do no damage to this already feral ***** Don’t try to hide The billboards may be sagging But they carry the message loud and effeminate All the drum ticks and coated arteries will explode They cant be stopped Mucho gusto, muy bien All that we ever where locked into some Tooth paste stained and tattered bibliomeca It is true I have become that broken shameful collection Which we are taught to stain in the wood works of our memory I turn to page 1168 And I know that the bruises will be permanent Surrounding the globe and bridging in the gaps The ones that they left between your calamity eyes Will they still love me with one foot locked in a bear trap And a hobo having the last of my eyelashes ? Or maybe just the scary albinos at the san Francisco bar scene
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Nov 30, 2010
Nov 30, 2010 at 8:56 AM UTC
A dog so diseased it chews its own tail
filled up with enmity coiling up inside The chest billows up Thy want to heave it out Then destined to tranquility The claws scratch the flesh Death gnaws on the remnants of longevity Unless visions have a chest To burst out into effervescence Spontaneous sigh is kicked out of your breath The clavicles sharpen, the eyes ogle ahead The nothingness dilates The flicker has no entrance for itself to adumbrate For utopia has its own gore To marvel over inside, The plasters of bliss Have guffawed over the gullible dusk The gloom has left with a whisper A muttering not to be heard The relief has sewed on flesh With the clouds coming out of thy outburst The relief rebirths the serenity Has been meandered, halted For thou shed leaves Making agony to clouds of no return Utopic defiance, the idiosyncratic anectodes Stains of externalized innundation For the literal existance of hope.
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Mar 5, 2017
Mar 5, 2017 at 7:13 AM UTC
Illusions