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The Things You Crave
“Yes,” I thought, “I understand this”. The need to have someone break you wide open take your fight so you can breathe feel sense because it’s impossible to let go alone. That blinding yourself bracing...
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Reprieve
Moody night, brooding clouds I wander through pages heavy with confessions I need you to take away my pen. I was so far away from home I was there in your arms, in your bed so far away covered in your...
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A Force Of
Cyclonic force, she demands obedience, I lean into her gale. Wind-soaked and rain-blown she makes up for fiery draught with equal power. Jeweled trees, aroused by her breath, shake their limbs, half...
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Clarity
Write it, in your ink so those words–mine– won’t find a home in me. Let me down again and again, I realized: When I stopped depending on him I stopped feeling angry when he let me down again. With the...
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Used
Take this day away from me turn it into your tomorrow. I’m tangled so tight I can’t cut myself free. I lost my way. Somehow, a blessing, we walked the same dark path into one another’s waiting embrace....
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An Arrangement
Stone-faced and silently screaming his name across miles of circumstance I am so far away in his arms, covered in his sweat, love and wet kisses I am not here We claw and steal the empty to fill our...
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Supported In Nature
Silence morning blooms Maxfield Parrish sky. Box of autumn crayons highlights the hills behind my house come, my love, let us walk. Leaves glow chartreuse in the low saffron sun. Clouds dip their toes...
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She Rises
Out later than she should have been, pale white moon slides sleepy into bed. She stirs too early even in the dark, wet months this persistent dawn. I wake up alone… damn silence, no distractions… why...
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That Place
Like yours, these doors stay closed locked with raking nails and screaming on the other side you see I’m injured just like you, a need therapeutic Patterns comfort of patterns, habits breaking apart...
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Pieces
“…I’m cutting myself into pieces…”, she said part realization, part confession unburdened she studied her reflection strange, distorted in her lukewarm tea, leaves floating in and out of focus, muck at...
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Merry
Joy surrounds me but doesn’t reach my heart. Wishes of peace stopped short by chaos. Morning sun is still down, night not yet releasing its grasp. I drive in the driving fat rain, deserted streets,...
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Lessons
The year’s end…years end… and we have, they were a dozen some and thousands more tears… still to fall, to fill oceans up to the horizon sinking heart drowning in grief… a state I must inhabit carrying...
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Recede
If you can feel me, feel me now If you can hear me, hear me as your own thought look up, look around for I am standing in an open field parched, scrubby weeds scorched by short shadows arms wide open...
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Returned
Go home leave me be go home to your life– your wife, your playmates, your toys your grown up games my heart can’t play anymore take back your fantasies of us the romantic, sweet hungry, fevered...
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Awake Alone
A low, distant whine crescendo and crash, can’t sleep– night’s howling windstorm. The blue rushing wind far better than silence, the deafening silence. I know I won’t sleep, with the air stirred up so,...
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Taste of the Ocean
And outside, the suns explode– white hot nails, assault fire– perforate the walls, flesh, bones and blood draining the taste of the ocean within me. Paralyzed, my penitence, to watch you leave our...
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Moving Days
Moving, keep moving or she’ll catch me mud beneath her claws sensing weakness, a snag in defenses trauma rises what happened to her– not me–to HER… Red saltwater blooms against pale skin swelled with...
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Before I Splintered
I don’t have time for catharsis a dam, high pressure, my heart chokes my cries and bursts, right here busy parking lot, impersonal storefronts shoppers oblivious to my world breaking apart tears...
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Undone
Squeeze my eyes shut tightly, against the image in my mind of you with her sliding, sweating grasping, moaning It’s too late I see it it can’t be undone Squeeze my eyes shut tell myself I’m different;...
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Rusty Pen
Cease…less, wordsabandoned in a rustyboneyard Halted,mid-task, a stumblingrush, backed up,pressure, pressurethreat butonly an exhale, empty Stuttering, shudderingpause…Where. Are. The.Words?! Blocked,a...
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