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Her loneliness is a hundred year old
famine,
there's a drought on her tongue,
her lips can only offer mouthfuls
of dead roots and dust,her love is..
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Might as well have been Fujiwara
Chiyoko,
chasing the shadow of a dead soldier
across the Japan in mid winter,
in war,
between earthquakes,
My d..
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With our perforated hearts,
and our plum sized lungs,
there is no peace
at the end of our journey,
We can't strain the hunger out of us,
we know ..
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She appeared after the sun's quiet
decay,
a white bird with fire
on her expansive wings,
two small stars in her eyes,
embers fell each time she
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Do not say my name too often,
Do not wear my name on your tongue,because it will stay there,
and you will never know anything sweeter,
but it weigh..
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The
boy in my bed
cracked
and split my heart
open
over his knee,
now
he swears it wasn't him
he
swears it was someone
else
livi..
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when an old love returns and your brain is resisting but your body is saying yes yes yes over and over again.
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storms, resilience
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I miss fireflies. In Ghana there were plenty.
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The harvest arrived but this year,
all the mangoes
had dropped in rotten brown lumps
on the ground beneath the tree
the flies feasted on the ro..
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