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 Mar 2023 Doshi
William J Donovan
A collection of stars
in my childhood jars
next to my little bed
morning all are dead.
 Mar 2023 Doshi
sgail
this morning I am feeling
my way through it.

settled, comfortable,
feeding myself.

the sun is rising earlier.

there is a magic history in the birds
I hear for the first time
since winter began

they are the truest thing
I know.
Slowly I fade away..
Slowly I fade away from her life…
Slowly I become this stranger..
Who visits her…
Sometimes…
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 Mar 2023 Doshi
nim
rails
 Mar 2023 Doshi
nim
||             look at me!,      ||
i playfully scream,
                                    balancing at the edge
||     of the rusty rails     ||
used only by ghosts
of trains, and of
people

the cliff                                          
||       turns gravity        ||
to pull me closer,        
into a                                            hug
||    i've always wanted,     ||
like a good parent
after praising his son

the call twists my
                                brain
insides                 ­               
pulling me          
closer          
                             to the cliff,

and i wander,
and i wonder,
and i
||        s c r e a m      ||
and i wish
i could
cry.

||                          ||
the rails are
closing in,
i don't have
much time

to write what i say,
                        || and sa||y what i write
i wish someone
could love me
now.

|n|ow|,|
not even the
rails
want me,
i fall
into the void,
now,
i     di         ||e||                  ▫️
a piece of you will always stay in me
and i don't get a say in it
 Mar 2023 Doshi
Dawnstar
1
 Mar 2023 Doshi
Dawnstar
1
my eyes are cups:
i raise them up
so tears don't spill
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 Feb 2023 Doshi
Thomas W Case
She loves the
darkness.
It’s like a scar on
her soul.
She constantly complains about
my drinking,
yet daily, she fades
to black.
Sleep, oh what an
escape, but she
rapes the sunrise with
worry and
dreams deferred.
I write by candlelight because
she’s in a  
foul mood.
It’s like a tomb.
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