![Skyscraper](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/56423300-1259051321.jpg) |
Think of me now as Earth:
here to give you warmth and shelter,
revolving at my core to bring you life
with wet, fertile soil to take your roots.
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![Old World](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/91592700-1256956661.jpg) |
From your throne in my chest
you rearrange me like Pangaea;
thrusting apart long-established boundaries,
violently forming callused mountain rang..
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![Ore](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/52588800-1255508566.jpg) |
I will call you Iron
for the taste you leave in my mouth,
the color you put in my cheeks,
and the way sink into my muscles.
because you are vo..
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![Sugar Plum](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/29348300-1243332649.jpg) |
1.
I'll show up lust-drunk and reckless,
swaying in the scent of clean sheets
and slow burning sandalwood.
2.
Fumbling for zippers bycellph..
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![Bobby Pins](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/64326900-1237182706.jpg) |
First attempt at a villanelle.
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![Sanctum](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/60518300-1236676658.jpg) |
Blue, foreign, cold and sharp,
the morning arrives and creeps under the window
demanding its audience rise from their warm, slee..
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![Instructions for After.](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/57294700-1237171653.jpg) |
Pull down my hood to let my hair out,
allow him to see it, feel envious,
he wants stroke the soft black strands.
Wear tight jeans, make a point
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![Bedtime](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/66027800-1234929271.jpg) |
My eyelids heavy with sleep,
I lay my head in the crook of your neck -
its final resting place for the night.
I'll dream there,
breathe there,
st..
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![The apocalypse.](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/90904300-1231472373.jpg) |
This is a short personal essay for an English class.
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![The rain finally came.](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/94015300-1226459198.jpg) |
First it was the cold wind,
a friendly warning to the winter ahead
that will knowingly and willingly drown us,
a climate we're accustomed to.
No..
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