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Poetry Corner Friday: Distance (a dance in three movements) Part III

I am tired. It was as though
I, with my own meager force
were pulling the train along its course [...]

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Poetry Corner Friday: You are loved

you are loved through premature ecstasy
through overdue sensations
of overwhelming pleasure…
you are loved through stalled dreams
of a perfect future…

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Poetry Corner Friday: Distance (a dance in three movements) — part II

The lights are off so that I can hear
and the volume is up all the way. [...]

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Poetry Corner Friday: I love you in ridiculous ways…

i love you because i don’t have enough energy for apathy.
i love you because i’m a little bit drunk and you laugh so pretty . . .

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Poetry Corner Friday: Fruit Stand

Is it strange
that I am enamoured
of a fruit stand? [...]

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Poetry Corner Friday: Angry

I push you away
pull you close…
you laugh

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Poetry Corner Friday: Borrow

I left the sweater on her bed
with a “thank you.”
Three days later
“can I borrow your jacket?”

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Poetry Corner Friday: Masterpiece

i am the sunset
the crashing ocean
the gods
the heavens…

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Poetry Corner Friday: One day

I want it to be the second gorgeous thing i see when i wake up…

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Poetry Corner Friday: Sunflowers

He brought me
three
pretty
sunflowers…

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