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In Knowing You, For But a Moment
On the porch, with grooves of woven twine
embedded into the underbelly of my thighs,
I sit and listen intently for you. My ears perked,
with unruly fire-streaked hair tucked behind them, -
Emily Dickinson, What Did You Feel?-
When you languidly grazed hands with a Woman,
had you seen your reflection in Her irises?
Had you wished you could drown in that yearning black void? -
A Newborn Sentience?
Let Her come out of the womb, varnished,
moved so miraculously by phantoms and auras.
Oral embodiments of asking and wonderment.
Ingesting the simplest forms, phonetic emotions. -
Let Me Search
- let me search
- spread across the earth like a wave of miraculous light
- let me search
- where movement makes undeniable sense
- where psychedelic circles vibrate l
- let me search
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Only a Little Out of Twelve Pages
- I Felt no obligation to be apologetic or to hate myself
- I welcomed all of the Love of the world into myself, and it was Beautiful
- mystic and Indomitable.
- (now, today, I am miserable ye
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New Sweet Griefs
Nasturtium (crystalized in spring frost,
even after the sun has wiped the teary sky)
who is unaccompanied and stationery.
Loves
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My father's daughter
My father texted me on Valentine's day
Three years ago I would've responded
But this year I asked who it was
I had deleted his contact
I don't regret it
Because my dad died years ago
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Maybe in another lifetime
I know I can never have her like I want to
If I could even have her like that I wouldn't take it
Not anymore
But maybe in another lifetime I would
My heart only beats for her
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A lock without a key
Cold, bitten, waiting at the door
Rain like the universe’s tears streaming down his cheeks
He knows rejection—it's known him from the start
You see, forgiveness is his revenge on himself
Mountains like monuments waiting
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A Snake in the Garden
An emerald sweep
of thin spears stretches
through the garden,
past the rough concrete
platform decorated with chairs
of red banded with white,
along the little reservoir
of spitting water,
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Our Home.
Mother Earth holds us all in her arms,
engulfing us in a comfortable beauty.
She keeps us safe,
as we travel around the sun.
She’s gifted us the oceans and lakes,
the mountains and hills,