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wear it tight
Your body uncurls, stretches deliciously and spills on the sheets, pink tongue slips out and in. I wonder what it’s like, I wonder the purity in you to be soft in the presence of a being so capable of harm My skin longs for the same but, I wear it tight.
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It too knows
It too knows, seen its brethren slaughtered, eaten— felt the raw course of illness in their blood, crushed skulls, aged bones and bitter cold yet they lope off walls, graze with ease in the fields, stands easy in the winds, flits past closed buds like nothing is of consequence like everything is, as is yet my…
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The bug
The bug scuttles across the pavement hints of red amidst the sheer wings head lifted proudly on spindly limbs. The sky seems lighter today, thin clouds— The bug scuttles back from whence it came, peaceful in its knowing unknown the span of the sidewalk.
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A son’s question
Your harsh light has my head beaten down to the toes my ears red to the heat. Father, there is too much to see to have these curious eyes only to the grains touched to these feet Mother! Let out your braided branches cover me in your dappled shadows so I may taste more than the…
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will be gone
My head rests on soaked mud. The sky drizzles. My vision blurs. It’s hard to keep my eyes open. I look up your stem, silky petals curled pink and one hangs precariously. A few more moments and it, too, drifts down to join me. Ah…soon all your sisters will join but I, will be gone.…
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A willow spills her joy
There in the glade, a willow spills her joy in the wind shaking left and right like a slow dream it spreads through the underbrush a hush, a spell that beckons— A roe nimbly floats through the soft curtain of quiet rain and I,sit on a bench, entranced, a specter, a ghostly figure who forgets…
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Begging hands
even as you shy away The stars still sparkle on you even as you stiffen your shoulders The clouds still wrap wool around you and even as you turn away your face The boughs still weigh down to your cheeks, catching dew.The sun and moon will still kiss your brow under your dark cloak and the…
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Winds of faith
My eyes sweat at the sight of ankles running free in the grass and songs circle in a dance of hands interlinked, where the hands are calloused only for each other, and lips only know of mirth and promises and the strands of hair snag in the winds of faith— all voices weave through breath…
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Daughter’s cry
O Father, why have you beaten Mother away The lands are dry, and your children crawl whipped by your words that direct no man but broken backs O Father, your great hand has nothing to guide no sunlight reflected, and no sunflowers dancing to you for the rivers of Mother run dry she has sunk…
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An hour sliced off
I know there are still wars outside not just the ones for territory fighting for things that will only ever belong to us for an hour sliced off the lifespans snuffed but the cold wars of the mind, hunger and bonds of blood and in this cocoon I find myself in I sleep a while in…
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