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Seventeen is shamelessly begging for an attempt at childhood
after you have devoted each year since birth to the preparation
of becoming a voice to be heard and ultimately reckoned with. -
I’d love you (if) [it’s] {only} |us|
(if you’re wrong.
Wrong for the right reason.
Wrong to reason in gazing at eyes.
Wrong as eyes see and mouth swallows.
Wrong as swallows fly and explore life.
Wrong while life continues in being. -
November
Clothing
There are so many dresses I have bought for events I will never
be invited to, but I do not give them away just in case I am.
I will bring home new hoodies knowing I will wear the same -
Three days of rain (and I believe this might last forever)
Sometimes you have to wait for the flood to end.
My chest weighed down like a penny in a puddle,
I wonder if wishes apply to wayward pothole pools;
at the edge of the road, I wait for a dream to surface. -
Teeth and Tongue
Teeth tears through the enemy;
searing past the layers, seizing
its dense core and shreds it.
Tongue saunters the problem;
suave in its protest against the
brutal violence that is seen daily. -
Three-Hoofed Lamb
Laying in the desolate corner of the pen
a little lamb is curled safely beside her mother,
dreaming of all the vibrant flowers in the eastern
field of the shackled barn further down the hill.
Loves
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The You That You Are
I love the you that you are when you are alone,
The you that you are when you’re at home,
When you look with soft eyes at the cat,
The you that you are when you step onto the doormat.
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The Heart of a Table
The ancient wooden table.
The dining room table my family gathered at tonight to enjoy a meal together.
But before my first bite of chicken reaches my mouth, I hear my mom tell my dad:
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The Perfect Man
I know that I can feel the greatest feeling of them all,
To look below the earth and slip a sigh.
But only when I meet him and I feel this big emotion
Will I be able to look him in the eyes.
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My Silent Love For You
In the depths of my heart, emotions concealed, a silent love story, forever shielded, not to wound the bond we hold dear.
With every beat of my heart, a love blossoms, yet fear's grip keeps it hidden away.
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Class on how to be 18
Growing up is scary
So far I don’t like it all that much
I am expected to know
What I want to be in perfect detail
I have to learn how to drive
Without being afraid of the big trucks
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Before the World Even Existed
She imagines the universe,
the world suspended in midair.
Before, nothing except possibility even existed.
The Milky Way, Earth, evolution–shimmer and dematerialize.