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The Babysitter
You never weatherproofed your roof, and so I came, with the rain, falling unwelcome, but essential, dripping into your daydreams, washing away the nights of low self esteem, waiting in the gutter, for you to need me again. I dance in the damp, to the sound of your thunder, love for each striking stroke, of…
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Who?
Who will love me, when I drop my key, beneath the mat, promise my suitcase, my heart, that we’re really going this time? No one. Just like you said. No one. I run back inside, close the door. Falling into your indifferent arms. Take me back. Take me back. TAKE ME BACK. “I never even…
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Aye Captain
The sun sends him screaming from our ship, chasing his youth, into the bathroom, blonde brushes into grey, and he blushes, as I swim closer. I kiss, coded, along his bow. India. Sierra. Tango. India. Lima. Lima. Whiskey. Oscar. Uniform. Lima. Delta. Safe in a lifeboat, back in my arms, he sinks back under the…
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Poetry Competition Winners!
Hola Amigos, Today, I’m very excited to share some of our contest winners with you. I had a lot of great entries, and it was so exciting to see so many of you creating so many wonderful things. It was very hard to narrow it down (I had to ask Little Muffin for help… ),…
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Women
The bitter bite of being underestimated, again, as if I am not sewn together, from the ones the world tried to tear apart. Today, I am not the girl I was. I am patched up, with pieces, a collage of Queens. Their bones are fused, with my refusal to be silent, we are together, awake,…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 