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March 2024

trees
see how beautifully we let each other go. we let each other go like the wind leaves the trees around my house, still and bare. like the sea leaves the…
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looking
outside my window i see the leaves of a grapevine sometimes at night the sky is bright each leaf is black against it dark hands i stretch out my arms…
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before
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turned to satin
driving in my car away from you my skin seems to shiver. i touch my legs my arm my face my lips it’s all turned to satin no longer human. just for a…
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mark maker
you say you don’t like your fingers your bitten nails the knobbly knuckles like your mothers. but your hand can make an ocean rise there is a tsunami at…
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February 2024

so quickly
last time i left early because i couldn’t bear the time passing.
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offal
when an animal is butchered it is cut into fragments each part seperate no longer alive no longer whole just meat and offal. you couldn’t be a butcher…
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without even knowing
blindfolded and ignorant of magic you thought nothing of reaching into a volcano and pulling out a dove
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gibbing
your arms are cream and broad and strong every curve is gentle warm packed statue of flesh when you raise them above your head in the car and show me…
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