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The Way To My Heart
The way to my heart has never been a mystery, or a shadowed, scary path. There is a map, drawn up and down your arms as I lean into them at sunset, a clear trail of helpful hints, snaking through your living room to the bedside table, where I place my lipgloss and my earrings,…
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Goodnight Guy
Glittering sky behind us, as we ascend and amaze the applauding universe. I tell you that I won’t tell a soul, but your name is sewn inside my smile, and everybody knows that I only smile for you. I kissed you at three AM in a desperate dream. It felt so real, that I was…
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Birthday Wish
I’m your beautiful birthday girl, all wrapped up in a bow, waiting to be undone, leaning against my garden wall, waiting for a kiss that never comes, because we live in a lockdown world, where loneliness is the only constant, no contact is the contract we sign, for some faraway fantasy of eventual freedom. I…
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It’s My Birthday Tomorrow
The sun has danced with the earth three hundred and sixty four times since I last let go of a year. I am in my garden, a new one, since it was last January 31st, and the sun has already said goodbye. The next time I see her, I will be a new woman, an…
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I Don’t Cry Anymore
My eyes have been dry for such a long time, sandy beaches, suddenly deserts. The sun sets as I settle in your lap, dry eyes, with no tortured tears, deep in a trance, hypnotised by how you hold me, so soft, so secure.