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perthcatch your breath

in the skeletons of leaves

it varies - this land

these trees - it carries

the wind of my afterthoughts on the

mountain tops

i stole it from the cedars

they came to me when i was young

when dreaming was too keen of believing,

& forgetting was too fond of feeling.

i sent it off, & found it reeling

itself back in

i stood in the lakes

you stared at my quak

ing heart; tore apart your

self-made prison.

undone & dealing a thousand

sentiments on the tip of your tongue

i spilled wisdom

but saw my reflection

in the vapor, & this was when

i became older - & later on

told myself how to look beyond an hour

i've bee

beari.

there is a bear in the forest. he breathes out ghosts, inhales the most
incredible brilliance - forgive me, i'm selfish about this one
i swear i didn't live before him. he's the loneliest soul,
i wrap my jeweled fingers around his bones because i'm alone within

his skin is pale as aspens
he looks alive in the autumn; grinds his teeth in the summer heat
'don't speak' he'll tell
me. he roams with wild eyes & broken bones, he's

the sweetest hell. he's a cavern in heaven. he's
more human than i'll ever be

his fur is made of afterthoughts & lulling birds
twin stars dangling high above his head
to mask a sound you'd give your life to he

star dwellerhow stained are my seasons

with forgotten intentions, i must have

loved you senseless

now i'm guarding my heart.

my ribs are a courtyard; you

cannot be shy, darling

you tell me, you're a

star

dweller

you fall into yourself

the space within you is beautiful & broken

i see it fully because it's what

made me feel help

less the first time i saw you

a word for your days growing old;

don't try to take control, little darling

i'm the youngest of souls

Cochineal and Beetle WingsI don’t love you
anymore.

I was going to lead up to this. Maybe claim
there was something caught in my throat
about beetle wings, cochineal – you know,
they make that stuff out of flight. Lipstick, I mean.
I mean the truth is

I can only smile like an inferno because
something else isn’t going to be flying away.
And I was going to say I’m sorry but I’m not.

I was going to lie to you like you needed me to,
but pray tell me how to grace through three weeks I hoped
for some kind(ness) of hurricane, so we could recalculate
in the aftermath, and nobody would blame me then for judging
that we came up empty.

Whistle+++
i am the wicked edge of ricochet,
the asphyxiation of dust
in a hummingbird's bones. skeleton,
i am silver, grass torn hollow
by a child's breath. corkscrewing,
my veins etch true reflections
on time's skin:

a cardigan crumpled
like a child. Blue
and torn in half.
---

cold windsmoving on is momentary

wisdom is fleeting, & so

bitter sweet

i was defeated by a cold wind

he sucked up my soul within; spat me out

i saw the image of who i truly am, & i drifted back into her

she shook her head "where were you?"

i replied "wandering."

now i know i'm capable of anything

but it's not enough to catch without reeling

it's not enough to love without feeling

& now i feel all the pain i was dealing

little don't to alone
i want be
just to my own

lukewarmshe had the kind of voice
that seemed to be stuck
in the hour of four o'clock
in the morning - soft
and tired and luring,
mumbling her way through
subways and tunnel lights
all pale yellow with noise.

there was tea and long baths
and longer absences,
hiccups of breath
the best
she could do.
long springs and
longer falls,
one equinox to the next
and still the bad
was never that bad
and the good
was never that
good,
and she continues to hum
the birds continue to sing
the apples continue to
grow and
sour and
fall,

and bury themselves
again.

coordinates i'm not talented at

making conversation

i'd much rather lie awake with the stars &

stay quiet to the sound of someone whispering

the coordinates of mars; commenting quietly on

which way the wind is blowing-

& without a hand to hold me, i am

capable of treading sharp streams

let the sand spill over me. i need to learn to

drink deep

& save myself.

i'll never let the world destroy me.

i'm barely visible, & i think it's rough to see

where i have been touched & pulled &

where i bleed. i'm alive- still, i'

lolitai am jane doe's naked knees,
shaking but still standing
bruised but still standing
swearing it's not
weak ankles to worry about it's
those goddam knees,
miss,
we have crooked
wires,
and
bad chemicals
quit thinking you're made of
iron when
you're really mostly
clay,
so
impressionable
(all skin, cartilage,
blood and nerves -
god,
it's only natural to feel)

old songs for a first lovethe crow is screaming

& the fields are swaying

& i'm staying

here

for a boy with bird boneswoven fern around his wrists

he slept through the winter like a sparrow

woke up with the moon, & the sun

the same one

lying on his broken back

bitty arms, & eyes full of oak

i bit into you, & i choked

you were so sweet, you were so sweet

you were exactly like me

i opened your quiet mouth

left you in the dark

wished you luck

little one, you're still too close to call away

i can't have you tomorrow or today

the ashes on the porch grow, & the chill in the wind blows

my little darling, you're sane

you've always been.

you tried to carry me through fire to

save my pastel skin, but i

melted so easily; i blushed until i was

burnin

it is a little strangei am

s
p
i
r
a
l
i
n g

and i am apologizing
because i never meant
to drag you down
with me

FableMoon cloaks
fallen from
shoulders,

(and you are)

left clad in only
the softest of
shadows.

Clichei. true love

& you were that one famous line
of a love poem – 1863 sonnet
scripted down your spine, verses
of sternum & shuddering heartbeat.

i remember the sheets twisted blue
as the eventide, your eyes like thelassia,
that species of ocean grass. we swayed
to the music of galaxies colliding.
our song was the day the tides
finally curled round the moon's face.

ii. cancer

eventides, thelassia eyes, moon
great and heavy as that one lucky coin
that refused to land, to grant a wish
or let luck decide for us. there were
star crabs scuttling under your
oragami skin. & i never realized
all the ways that you folded
until t

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by *hazeltown, Dec 14, 2012, 12:20:47 AM
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she kissed the sea with bokeh haze & light leaks cradled herself to sleep with panorama dreams when she awoke every thing was blurry she peers through glass & turns to focus the sand is with her the rain is falling these things come in twos, but they never seem to notice a single cell warily singing carefully, wandering her soul is dripping with beads of sweat & no regret it's an emptiness: i cannot fit my tiny hands in his

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*bloodawni Feb 9, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

"it's an emptiness: i cannot fit
my tiny hands in his"

So pretty. So, so pretty.

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~apple-fresh Jan 18, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

it's an emptiness: i cannot fit

my tiny hands in his

awww! :3

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!Kymira12 Jan 1, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Hello *ampersandheart!

On behalf of #InspireTheUninspired we would like to congratulate you on being Featured within our group. Please take a look when you have time and support your fellow artists

Keep writing and inspiring!

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*hazeltown Jan 1, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

Thank you!

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!Kymira12 Jan 1, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

It was our pleasure

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*disrhythmic Dec 19, 2012

she kissed the sea with bokeh haze & light leaks

cradled herself to sleep with panorama dreams

I love that. So much.

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