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You best know I can yell at my cravings by their Sunday names. Can't walk in the world like the undamaged do. There are graves in my garden. Chopped…
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It Never Does
I step out my door, slip the anchor of routine,Thanks for reading & Other Birds! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. and fall…
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Hummingbird Moment
In one heartbeat I learned the truth. Before, I was ignorant as a puppy, as an early model robot hoover. Until the adults laughed at my following you…
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I Suit Myself
Get the party started, a whole ballroom full of me goes famished to the buffet of fashion, to all the dishes they teased me for eating. Wrong kind of…
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Small Birds
Safety has been unmade. Walks with a limp, smiles small With a cut lip where paper razors Invisibly slit her open. Walks alongside, close enough to…
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Instead
The first I will bury with blackthorn, tangled uncertainty, anger thrown overhand. The second I will bury with willow, whip slender shoots through a…
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Temples
I don’t want to make my body a temple. I’d rather it be a playground or a creche. Somewhere fun. I want to get Greek about it, with ecstatic dance and…
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