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Dreamcatcher
You asked me if they were happy tears and I told you I was terribly happy and terribly scared at the same time and you asked me where my love was coming from, and I didn’t ask you what you meant, I only said it was made of all the cups of coffee I abused… Continue reading
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2nd through 11th
Look up. There’s a portrait of you among the clouds. The song of your heart is written on the skyline. Your life story is in every condo unit lit up from within, glowing with promise through the sheer curtains on the windows. You know that sun up there? It loves you passionately. It longs to… Continue reading
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Man on the Hanford Billboard
The moon is always jealous of the glowing translucency of day just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep. The earth is constantly wishing it were fluid and of a calmer hue, say, blue the same way the ocean constantly misses being solid enough to be walked on, to have a man’s… Continue reading
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Drunk With Night
An afternoon in the rain a pitcher of Cuban mojito four shots of drip Sumatra espresso an evening of PhD-level mathematics and you are still in my mind and you are still at the top of my list you are still breaking my heart I’ve always been a strong woman but always been weak when… Continue reading
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Enigma
Legend has it Alan Turing used to crack German war codes for breakfast and save a hundred lives before he finished his morning coffee well I would appreciate some rescuing because I’d wake up each morning hoping you were easier to understand you tantalize me just a few centimeters short of driving me crazy stealthy,… Continue reading
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Destiny is Like
hearing the intro chords of a brand-new song you’ve never heard before and you’re too comfortable sitting on the fluffy couch nibbling a choco-chip cookie or too busy wrapping up a calculus problem with the radio just inches beyond your reach so you don’t switch stations in favor of a more familiar melody and let… Continue reading
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Please Come Closer
Please come closer pull your chair up next to mine so you can smell my perfume morning spills through the windows as fine and precise as a violin solo and the air is flavored by your presence let me be in the center of it, please come closer I’m like a child discovering the world… Continue reading
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Every Breathless Ticking Moment
Let me not cling to you the way I used to have the tendency to do but instead let me stand back and behold you in your element like one would dangle one’s feet from the breakwater to savor each breathless ticking second of a sunset Let me respect the distance that made my fantasies… Continue reading
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Six Billion to One
Look, I know how unlikely it is. It’s like winning the lottery with odds six billion to one. But these past few nights I’ve been getting these recurring dreams that you were my perfect man and I was your perfect girl and I always wake up too high to be reasoned with. Such a perfect… Continue reading
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Cautious
Petal by petal drop by drop I bare myself to you like treading on eggshells like painting on ash but I don’t really aim as much for perfection as to simply make the dream last longer …….because I’m too old …….to be haphazardly …….rushing and crashing into things …….sleepwalking through romance …….covered in the sharp… Continue reading
Rampant & Golden 