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A Poem by Anna
I am famished...
my fingers
feverishly decorticate
the velvet rind.
Spreading apart
moist flesh
to reach overflowing
juices of honey
flavored ..
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A Poem by Anna
I wait...
[indent]but fear,
I will never hear,
[indent]from you
what I bite
[indent]my tongue
to keep from
[indent]speaking.
I am left to
[i..
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A Poem by Anna
I sand smooth
[indent]the rough
[indent][indent]edges of my words,
[indent]over and
[indent][indent]over again.
Running fingers
[indent]over ..
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A Poem by Anna
I slip between
[indent]the pages
[indent][indent]within this,
and watch the white
[indent]turn scarlet hues...
as I slide at an
[indent]angle on..
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A Poem by Anna
My eyes slide gently between
satin sheets of darkness.
Embraced, caressed by the
liquid texture of ebony around me
I have...
slipped into silk..
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A Poem by Anna
I climb
through
the layers
of illusioned
clarity
to open
the skylight
and let
the smoke
out.
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A Poem by Anna
Pull the
rip cord.
Let
the winds of
change
take their
course,
and feet
will
land upon
solid
ground,
with
fear left
in the clouds.
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A Poem by Anna
There is somthing...
here, or there...
something...
simple, beneath
the complexity.
Something...
that if I allow
myself to slip into
would fit..
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A Poem by Anna
Awakening to
[indent]the calm inside,
[indent][indent]drifting between,
dreams and thoughts.
[indent]Someplace beneath
[indent][indent]a purple s..
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A Poem by Anna
Layers of silk are
[indent]peeled back,
one by one they crack
[indent]and flake
[indent][indent]away,
reveling the rotten
[indent]organic mass..
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