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These
tapping hands hold each scripted line.
The
first kiss, after hopscotch, on the playground
between
my house and school,
the
hungry way I l..
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Unspoken
threads run, wafting between people
in nods,
syllables, micro worlds of quiet knowing
this thin
weaving, net or noose, we hold light ..
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My mind was
born in nursery rhyme and fable,
sprouting
branch and leaf off story's marrow
root,
sucking words from under my feet, the
salt washe..
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I am a tree
bearing
opulent fruit.
As you sit
in my shade,
I bend to
listen,
absorb your
tears,
growing
deeper roots
to hold up
under yo..
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I walk softly on the earth,
don't let my footsteps echo too loud,
tiptoeing,
chewing softly, so as not to intrude.
Seeing how short my years are, ..
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It
would have been much toodangerousto
talk about, the cursethat was eating him,that there wasnothing I could really dotostop it.
I
was a hell ben..
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A Sonnet...ISH :/
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Scale of a teenage mother.
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Letters
refuse to gather around...
My
heart that rushes and strains at the
sound
of his voice, the collection of all
these
years hidden in ..
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He
walked the narrow beam
of
conciliatory conversation,
unspoken
words puddling
in
dark patches under his eyes,
leaking
black bile ribb..
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