![Sassafrass](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/28270800-1202348647.jpg) |
Outside my apartment window
there is a slender sapling
growing wild against the
backdrop of a perfectly
manicured golf course.
It is a sassaf..
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![Oreos](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/71643500-1202333863.jpg) |
I have almost never eaten an entire box of Oreos myself. Almost.
There was that one time though, in college, when I walked in on the current &ldquo..
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![Shadow](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/19730000-1202347929.jpg) |
If you must go,
leave me your shadow.
Fling it across my
naked skin
in an attempt to keep
my loneliness
from showing.
I will wrap myself around..
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![These Goodbyes](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/53809200-1202348507.jpg) |
I’m alone. While you’re speeding
down the interstate.
How far could you go, can you go,
before turning around and
letting me whisper..
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![Drywall](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/57547200-1202333027.jpg) |
I’ve pressed myself up to
the drywall between us.
My cheeks and palms and breasts,
hoping my desires will seep
through and send a sign,
..
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![On Seeing Ansel Adams, "Face on a Half Dome: Yosemite National Park"](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/69961300-1202332592.jpg) |
Face of God.
I have seen you
covered in snow,
deep crevices web your features,
leaving them weather-worn
with worry and the rain of falling t..
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![Unrated](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/74113700-1202334097.jpg) |
I am not rated ‘G’
Or ‘E’.
Every man
Woman and
Child
Cannot enjoy
Me-
There’s too much
Ride in
My thighs
A..
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![Breeze Bottles](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/77737300-1202349200.jpg) |
I wish
that you and I
could stand atop
these mountains
and catch the dry-
leaves breeze in bottles.
So when I leave, and
am homesick for y..
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![Fireflies](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/78128900-1202349317.jpg) |
Fireflies are the little lighted gems
of steamy summer nights
calling for midnight rendezvous’
on the dark edges of the woods.
We came, ar..
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![marriage](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/93211500-1202332245.jpg) |
She lies.
And she lies next to him.
He forgives her.
For she gives in
to his desires.
She cooks for him
She cleans for him
She changes for hi..
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