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Loathing
I hate you, I always say, again, And you can see I mean it. I don't think it matters. We fight. My finger scratches Down the marble of your torso,...
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- 559 reads
Missing
I miss the way the curve Of your spine fitted exactly Into the waiting space In the tumble of my bedclothes. I could count your ribs On the knuckles...
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- 617 reads
Watching a kiss
The water fountain was behind you, And you eclipsed it when you kissed. I felt a sudden thirst whistle in my throat, Speckled as it was with the...
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- 628 reads
Practice
The shine of the flute Is smudged at the mouth, Where my eyes are drawn To the pucker of your lips. The flute plays in my dream, A forgiving lilt of...
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- 614 reads
Waiting
Waiting. I don't know why. It almost Touches My spine, Stiff straight, Arched backs Like a catfight. A level gaze, Waiting For my explanation, Which...
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- 599 reads
Coming back too late
Almost knowing I was here, The house glooms darkly, With searching eyes. Windows, unwashed, door, too red. Long path, tree shadowed. She opens the...
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- 634 reads
Spilt milk
They are the torn edges Of a puddle of smashed glass, Bright in the morning sun. There is watery milk. It looks cold, but I don't touch it, Seeping...
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- 575 reads
Playing favourites
Favourite, I said, Smiles and empty kisses Grown still on the air. There is paper, pink paper, It has my name on it. And a heart, blood- But it's not...
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- 596 reads
Loves me not
She loves you not. Petals, crumpled lace, Fluttering wings on the air- In my stomach, butterflies, Your silver cross is cardboard. He loves me not,...
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- 557 reads
Forgive me?
I don't believe That it's a relationship Gone wrong. It's more that it's not going At all. It's not that I don't love you- I do, I do, I do! But if...
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- 584 reads
Hartlepool Harbour, west side. I think
Swinging my legs, kicking Rough against cement Down my neck Rain, monotonous Greasy chip paper blew Weighted down with cold batter Like my stomach...
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- 621 reads
Mirrored: self
What might it be? Hiding between silvered glass And the trap of a soul Mirror, mirror, mirror I come back to it Changing faces Though I never like...
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- 678 reads
E - Wicks
Another page from my diary, January 25, 2004
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- 1024 reads
Overleaf
Written during an exam, just after I'd looked at the front page where it said "Begin writing overleaf".
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- 648 reads
Impatience
A swirling kaleidoscope of red and red and red It's creeping like the smell of boiled cabbage down school corridors Echoing with pointed footsteps...
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- 567 reads
The hour after the Theology exam
As the title says, I wrote this an hour after I'd taken a disastrous exam in Theology. I had to do a writing exercise based on a vase of water, so this came out.
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- 684 reads
Forget my history
I'm being bad. Bad, bad girl, forget your history- Supplication and suspicion, sacrificed To the birth of an idea, in an ideal world. Utopia is...
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- 647 reads
Farewell
Farewell to days filled with leaves: I cannot open my box to let out the light within the gale of swirling orange and brown. Maggots will eat the...
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- 1055 reads
Pirate ship
Wrote this one actually when I'd just got off a terrifying spinning ride at a theme park. Kind of odd.
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- 591 reads


