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Poems by evidently, by newest first

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  • The seeds were ferried across in bottles,
    and found their way
    by evidently 21 lines, on Sep 2 6:19 AM
  • The girl I could have been has warm hands
    and a slow smile with a hiss in it.
    by evidently 13 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 22 6:42 AM
  • It looked white, but you knew
    that if you flipped its sad head upright
    by evidently 12 lines, on Mar 22 6:33 AM
  • Every twenty eight days I shed my skin.
    The first time I did it it was painful.
    by evidently 14 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 22 6:31 AM
  • The country leant down, bowed
    till its horns scraped the ground
    by evidently 11 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 14 3:03 PM
  • At the end of the road the shops burn blue
    and topple down in hollow
    by evidently 19 lines, 1 comment, on Feb 14 3:02 PM
  • I always knew that aqua, when it appeared
    in ingredients lists on bottles,
    by evidently 14 lines, 2 comments, on Feb 14 2:58 PM
  • They fed me on osage-oranges
    and cut up white mulberry leaves, let me live
    by evidently 14 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 14 12:05 AM
  • So I know that it could be the blood
    that I’ve mentioned too often
    by evidently 16 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 17 2:54 AM
  • When it’s twelve years old you find your way
    past its curved blue spikes
    by evidently 13 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 12 12:04 PM
  • The trick is to believe it.
    You take the words you’ve just
    by evidently 26 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 8 5:16 PM
  • For three days in a sodden hotel in Dorset
    I shared a razor with my mother.
    by evidently 11 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 8 4:26 PM
  • I want to stroke the faces of strangers on the tube.
    They’ve got skin like modern art,
    by evidently 26 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 7 2:47 PM
  • Yes, she’s afraid of moonlight. It drives you mad; that’s where the word lunacy comes from.
    by evidently 36 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 7 1:10 PM
  • I’m as straight-laced as the corset you wore
    for your eighteenth birthday,
    by evidently 15 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 6 3:15 PM
  • It isn’t only horrible but dull,
    too – how predictable your face
    by evidently 16 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 29 8:33 AM 2008
  • And then there were candles
    and my hand hovering, cooked
    by evidently 17 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 28 3:09 PM 2008
  • And not just because
    I want to map your guts
    by evidently 19 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 28 2:53 PM 2008
  • I was honestly amazed – struck
    into silence, marring the air
    by evidently 28 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 2 12:03 PM 2008
  • by evidently 44 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 1 5:58 PM 2008
  • The water bellows out the contents of my body
    in radiating parachute-shaped circles.
    by evidently 15 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 28 1:16 PM 2008
  • There’s no hope for places like this
    when people like me look past
    by evidently 31 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 26 4:04 AM 2008
  • they are flashing lights – scrolling
    out of the dark, dressed up in vortices
    by evidently 31 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 13 2:43 PM 2008
  • You gave me a carved wooden amulet, which I think
    must be real, because it is keeping one place warm
    by evidently 20 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 12 11:25 AM 2008
  • by evidently 37 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 11 1:48 AM 2008
  • Get out of my poems.
    by evidently 37 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 10 11:42 AM 2008
  • When winter came my voice
    collapsed like a lung.
    by evidently 15 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 6 4:35 PM 2008
  • It’s so hard not to let the things I say
    cling together like soaked cotton wool,
    by evidently 25 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 6 11:53 AM 2008
  • by evidently 18 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 3 12:03 PM 2008
  • Your hands are steam
    on my hands – soaking them red
    by evidently 30 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 2 3:18 AM 2008
  • by evidently 32 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 29 1:57 PM 2008
  • You are a careful shell of bruises
    and grazes and laughter lines,
    by evidently 17 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 29 1:43 PM 2008
  • by evidently 4 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 28 4:31 AM 2008
  • Your hair hanging like yellow asphodel
    secreted heat and moonlight on the air.
    by evidently 22 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 27 11:46 AM 2008
  • The first time I sang it was for a boy I knew,
    and halfway through the caoin my voice bent,
    by evidently 21 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 27 10:13 AM 2008
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