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I am piling pieces to burn, cutting
nail-pocked
hemlock into chunks, metal teeth
sawing
someone else’s name from wood. I
am dem..
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You are the sun and moon
And Venus, bright and bare
Alight with pearl and ivory robe
A translucent caressing dare
That plays in shadow, a ..
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Her eyes are vacant as stone statues
that cause me to flutter around her like tiny
birds afraid to land. They dance against the wind,
nervous..
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When
we were girls, I remember Becca holding my hand as we crossed the street,
licking her fingers to wipe smudges off my cheeks before we got..
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Poppies kneel, flaccid as fish
Rays of light gripping their skinny necks
A corona’s bright song pressing down like choirs
Girls no ..
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Sunset has painted the sky in lullaby blue
with orange, red radiant strokes. Sea froth
foams as gentle crests break and draw against
lenient ..
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we float down the river,
and stand in circles as eager
hands fold us into shape, each
more skilled than the next.
frozen in sunlight,
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A paper egg lies crushed under my feet
in robin’s speckled blue, a shattered mosaic
wet with ooze,and I think of ababies’fine, t..
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Nervous leaves sway and tremble, hanging on to spindly whipping
arms
that rise and fall like frightened octopus appendages,
pausing hap..
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100 word story
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