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Linguistics

I miss kisses. I miss the taste of lips on lips. I miss the hunger in your eyes and the warmth of your hands. I miss the violence of your love, the way your teeth would sink in, the way … Continue reading

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Deeper

I like to believe you could step out of the place where you aren’t real, into the place that is. I like to believe you would take my hand and burn me on purpose. I like to think you’d make … Continue reading

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With This Ring…

I think I’ve found the reason you and I will never make this work. It might be because you eat the last umeboshi without telling me, and it may be because I replace the brine with dog urine. I think … Continue reading

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Someday.

Occasionally he sees how the cycle could end. He thinks of all the ways it might work: A gun to his head. A tire iron to hers. He imagines what it would be like to be free: What joy he … Continue reading

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Servant

I imagine your lips, parting, soft and sweet, crushed against mine, delicate, a bruised flower full of nectar, dripping sweetness, dropping slow honey against your tongue. I imagine your heartbeat as thunder, and your touch as fire. I crave you … Continue reading

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