December 2011
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GUESS WHO WENT DEEP SEA FISHING TODAY?
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These Fleshy Limbs
this pale skin
freckled with
the thought of you
flushes
at the hints of spring
in the lumbering steps
of winter
that lingers in your eyes
these fleshy limbs
twist and turn
around the words
your broken hands
wrote on glass
windowpanes
crackling with frost
these yellowed bones
they chip
with
the powdery breaths
blown kisses
from the...
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Stolen Trees
voices of teenage rebellion
rising from unsteady microphones
blinking away innocence
with a quiet desperation
and I have lost them
among stolen trees
pressing shards of bark
through thinning
too thin fabrics
and into the guilt worn skin of my back
slowing
constantly tearing tiny pieces
reminders of deeds forgotten
and lyrics
long flushed from watering...
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Pieces
eyes that search
piercing veils hanging thick
to reach my trembling shoulders
spilling down to broken wrists
sweaty palms
all the way to my swollen fingertips
searching
for specks of dirt
from purposefully toppled plants
I’m sorry
I spilled your carefully molded earth
and dirtied my skirt
with dripping blood
it just fell
from my shaking knees
I was just trying
so hard I was trying
to put those...
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