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The seeds were ferried across in bottles, and found their way
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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
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It looked white, but you knew that if you flipped its sad head upright
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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
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The country leant down, bowed till its horns scraped the ground
by evidently
11 lines, 3 comments,
on Feb 14 3:03 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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And then there were candles
and my hand hovering, cooked
by evidently
17 lines, 3 comments,
on Nov 28 3:09 PM 2008
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And not just because I want to map your guts
by evidently
19 lines, 5 comments,
on Nov 28 2:53 PM 2008
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I was honestly amazed – struck
into silence, marring the air
by evidently
28 lines, 1 comment,
on Nov 2 12:03 PM 2008
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by evidently
44 lines, 5 comments,
on Nov 1 5:58 PM 2008
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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
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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
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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
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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
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by evidently
37 lines, 3 comments,
on Oct 11 1:48 AM 2008
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Get out of my poems.
by evidently
37 lines, 3 comments,
on Oct 10 11:42 AM 2008
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When winter came my voice
collapsed like a lung.
by evidently
15 lines, 4 comments,
on Oct 6 4:35 PM 2008
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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
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by evidently
18 lines, 2 comments,
on Oct 3 12:03 PM 2008
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Your hands are steam on my hands – soaking them red
by evidently
30 lines, 1 comment,
on Oct 2 3:18 AM 2008
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by evidently
32 lines, 2 comments,
on Sep 29 1:57 PM 2008
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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
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by evidently
4 lines, 2 comments,
on Sep 28 4:31 AM 2008
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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
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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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