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Daddy loved me like an afternoon TV commercial,like ice cream licked from the bottom of a bowlwhen no one’s looking, his tongue searchingcold an..
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This chipped paint, the missing trim
The faint, black fingerprints left in the ceiling
Where you hung the wrong light
This is my song
The ..
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Another Charleston story
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I can hear the other shoe
About to drop, as I amRecursively walking up and down the stairs-Dust askanse-
Forgetting what I came for
Folding ..
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I
realized, a broken windshield too late,
the
poignancy of my situation. As I picked
the
broken glass out of my hair, I paused
to
conside..
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Mother -she has written me a heart attacklines like octopus armsword suckers on tentaclesred X’s dangle over childhoodlike clown mobiles bobbing..
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I am the slave master’s
daughter
pulling squares of sugar-coated
bodies
out of black soil
fingering pain -
taking test bites..
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walking sand dunes to
my standing stone -
footprints blown with the
wind -
stripping silks
to drift on air,
pulled from a hungry cl..
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As I was reading of the mechanisms
of an industrial age,
the clock on the wall skipped in its chiming;
a stutter in the artery -
anachron..
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Temptress witch, a worthy vessel
to
carry our sin through fire to an
angry
god. We absolve ourselves the lust
of
survival, pur..
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