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All At Once and All The Time
I tried to become a dream,a vision in violet,at war with your oven and the powder blue sky that sought to distract me,emulating the eyes of my beloved.I gazed out the window in a hazy, happy stupor,until the kitchen was filled with silent, staring smoke,judging and tutting as I fell under your spell. You were…
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Routes
The words were written deep within our wounds,but we went different ways, when the sun sank into the soil.We learned different lessons,traced different trails on our troubled skin,but they always had the same destination.
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Just Dance
The past pulses from the radio,and I can see a sentimental seventeen year old in the smudged glass of the window.She is smiling, with no sense of the sun’s intention to disappear for a decade.I could tell her,but why trouble her with what’s to come? I just let her dance.
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Summer Rain
Sprinkles of summer rain on your soft skin,cinnamon sticks on the window sill,burnt to nothing,and I,burned at both ends but still aflame for you.My lips tingle and tremble,heart fluttering as the fantasy finds a life of its own,growing, glowing, towering tall above us,as we kiss in a shadow in the summer rain.
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Inspired
October was mere weeks away,and so I felt an urge to play.As she slept softly in her bed,I took my claws and opened her head.I filled it with the darkest nights,the loudest howls and biggest frights.I filled her trembling hand with my pen,and never let her rest again.All of her tears came tumbling down,from dreams…