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Month: May 2016

The boy with the concave chest

May 17, 2016July 23, 2016

The boy with the concave chest Wanted the world to know he loved me He recycled poems and made gestures So over the top, you could see them from the moon He put words into my mouth And pulled them back out like a string of pearls clicking against teeth The boy with the concave…

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Categories: Poetry

For Racheal

May 15, 2016July 23, 2016

Something about a sunny weekend Reminds me of you and melted push-pops And hard plastic shoes Baseball in the neighbor’s yard And standing on top of buckets To fill up water balloons Building forts out of anything we could find And laying on couches, crying with sunburns If we close our eyes hard enough, we…

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Categories: Poetry

After we part

May 15, 2016July 23, 2016

After we part, I tell myself that next time I will not be so eager It takes one phone call to lose my resolve Your voice is cottony, like a warm towel You apologize and my cheeks swell with impossible little wins We make plans I walk on clouds for a few hours Until you…

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Categories: Poetry
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