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Won’t You

This is a bad day, the kind of one where the world feels like red smoke and tastes like hate-flavored sky. This is a bad day, where there is no do-over, no reason why. I feel taken apart, taken down, … Continue reading

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Return Me To Myself

How much of myself do you want me to give up so I can be your everything? How much of my skin would you like me to peel away, and how much blood would you like me to trail, and … Continue reading

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We

In my mind’s eye, we are one flesh; you have renewed me so often and I have bled for you so many times that I believe what I feel in my heart is your pulse; that my eyes cry your … Continue reading

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I fear the season’s change for us

I get a chill every night these days and I can feel it in my bones. I can’t escape the ice of it, the thing that comes home and shrieks in the wind, this winter of our relationship, where it … Continue reading

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You’re An Old Love

I pick you up and put you down again, when I am weary of trying new things, or frightened of new things. Palm on your spine, thumbs spreading you. My eyes dart across what I have seen a dozen dozen … Continue reading

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