Poetry
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Budding
Perfect little rosebud mouth, You smiled at me with that; Your giggle fell like sprinkled coins on glass. Moonbeam eyes – a-sparkle. Eyes like opals...
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Night Sky
Red haze; An ochre-mud static paints itself over our retreating darkness. We all see the comet, White-eyed, silver-haired, A spot of paint spilled...
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Private Darkness
You made the decision to run away. She : spreading like a weed, Sliding into your private darkness, She casts a white light, casts her eyes over...
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Story
Smarter than her chains, She slips in and through them, She makes them dance to her tune. No, this is NOT how I begin; No, this is NOT the way I end...
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Iron Moon
Each night she draws the iron moon; She sketches its face on the sky, In amongst the maelstrom of stars, hot gasses, galaxies. Each night, she takes...
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Perfect Penny
Perfect Penny. See how she struts her stuff On the dancefloor, On the kitchen floor. Her long legs entangled in yours; Silk on silk, silk on...
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Like I Do
I've seen her. Puppy Sandals, Preppy shirt. Yes, I've seen her. Diamond headband, Rainbow skirt. And it doesn't make much difference, That you've...
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Possession
I think that she completes me, Hand in hand, Hand in blood. # She's there in the dark, Halfway sleeping, halfway flickering. I run my fingers over...
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Her Secret Face
She let's you see her secret face, She more inflicts it on you. She tutors you in its intricacies, Patterns, pitfalls, perfections. Unwraps it from...
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I Can See Around Corners
You. You. And You. You. What do you think makes us tick? What trick? What magic makes us turn? Yearn. What fills us up, what hollows us out? Gives...
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Angel Face
Angel face, Your heart is unstinting, relentless; I know you could love me for a thousand lifetimes; days gone by, days unborn. You sparkle on my arm...
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Always There
I see you everywhere. Hinted at in windows, Lurking in alleyways and beneath stairwells, Breathing too loudly. I know you. You’ve stolen my face,...
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In Spring
They have no idea what’s waiting for them, Woolly, wally, wily; Kicking up their heels in innocence; Puffy like clouds, Soft-seeming like cotton...
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Time
I met you in the marketplace, A time long, long ago, The look you gave me, the teasing smile, Only you and I can know. You sparkled like diamond, And...
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No Distance At All
You are never far away from me. No, not if we are separated by a thousand oceans, Nor if a mountain, if a mountain range, Claws its way out of the...
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Infinity
You come home. Take the paper in. Feed the dog. Check your messages. He comes an hour later, glasses askew, tie loosened: A comic stereotype. A...
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Metallic Sounds
The clanging never stops, It never stops echoing, It travels around the world and comes back. Metal on metal on metal, Forever. His voice on hers,...
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The Tower of Song
You always come to find me here, Across blackened heath, Horizontal hailstorms, And if the fires of hell rain from heaven, Still, still, I know you’...
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Ivy
Ivy knows the road home; She ought to, She’s walked it so many times, she thinks, Back and forth across her own footprints, Stopping, and turning,...
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Under Sunset
Pretty Poppy, Dancing on the head of a pin. Always ready with a show, With a smile, a wink, a backwards glance, She flares as the lights get low. No...
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Up Across the Road
Come up across the road to me. She extends her hand, Invitation? Trap? Conspiracy? She flickers in the wind, static on snow-scree. Skeletal...
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Where Would I Go?
It rains so hard, That I don’t know, If the world outside, Can still go on. It rains so loud, It fills the air, Until I don’t know, If I’m really...
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Lovers
My body is nothing but dust these days, Dragged in from the outside, From the ragged side-streets, the forgotten lanes, It’s what happens to stardust...
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The Scream
It’s a wonder that none of them can hear me screaming: Help me, help me, let me out, let me out-out-out-out! Perhaps it’s because the scream is only...
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Words
I am not afraid. At least most of me isn’t. I lie awake at night, aware of the fear, Seeing it out of the corner of me eye, Slinking in around the...
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Two Halves of Heart
Two halves of a heart; Yin to the Yang. My plenty to your fire-blighted desert. The shadow, and the light it takes to cast it. Your blue to my orange...
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A Red Dress
I wore a red dress; And it was a glory to behold, It was red like the night, As red as coal, Red like a dying sun. And it grew on me with the...
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Why I Find Such Joy in Her
She is . She is: she exists, And if that doesn’t sound like much, Then you should know that she exists like no other, Carved into the world in such...
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Homecoming
The House: A sliding scale of angles - angels? – You might see them where the edges connect, And where the sun catches the glass, Where the rainbows...
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Solstice
I like my winter solstice joke, I can't wait until the day comes along, When I get to say to all my friends, I'm as honest as the day is long.
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Symbiosis
I will give to you my red heart, If you will give me your dark soul; I know that you will not be perfect, I will bruise myself on your freedoms, Be...
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Jovial Johnno
At least that’s what they called him. Always with a smiling face, Always the teeth. An endless, upturned crescent, A laugh that carried, blocks away...
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Women of the Winds
You are to me my North Wind, Icy and bracing and full of life, You touch me with a trace of frost, with a glimpse at diamonds, And everything about...
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Missing Him
Miss him? Of course, I miss him. If missing him is this hollowed out, gnawing thing in my belly, If it’s this twisting and extracting of entrails,...
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Longing
Birthed by the shadows, She, like lava, slips between them, A disturbance, A ripple, A distortion so small and basic and integral That perhaps it was...
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Tiny
There’s nothing wrong with you. You’re absolutely perfect. An artwork in miniature, Your tiny feet, your buttercup fingers, Your little whispers of...
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Only She
She finishes his body to perfection, Chopping, sculpting flesh, Twisting and towering his sandstorm hair, Lifting the skin to show how the fire lurks...
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Lovers
We live beneath a citrine sky, Until it washes purple, Then aqua, Until a deep black canvas studs itself with jewels, Until a sunrise detonates, And...
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This Place
I’ve been here before, This place; I recognize the straggling, ugly, angry wallpaper; And the way the darkness rolls in from all the sides at once. I...
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