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Careful Love eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2…

Careful Love

As the candle tunnels and you place your head in the nook that cradles the wall, I run my fingers along your arm to make sure you are alive. It is my own kind of pulse. In these moments of radiator…

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caught between a yawn, another ensuing; caught between glances at raindrops bouncing semicircularities off the ledge,
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here is the sand, & further from the sand (can you see?) here is the sea.
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Ode to my Organs eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2…

Ode to my Organs

I can’t write a poem when I feel like my organs are weightless, like the architecture of my body would abandon me for the next best thing awaiting my heart, liver, kidneys, skin bag, eyeballs…

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your coffin had no nails. years i have lived with this nailed feeling, every moment forgotten.
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sometimes unsure, sometimes salving; someone erred, someone saving. all the time, unwavering. youth can be, wondrously, fair.
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Echolalia eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2…

Echolalia

On a middle school field trip you proposed to me with a ring of white clovers your best friend knotted together and gave you, saying Go. A few girls braided their arms and hunched around us as you …

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I’ve been told my way of loving is selfish. eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2…

I’ve been told my way of loving is selfish.

No – no, it is not the same as last time and you can’t convince me that it is. If it is true that everything is lined up ahead of us, like in the stars, does that mean we have no agency? Is t…

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Random Sandman #7709. #Sandman #NeilGaiman #Morpheus #Dream #Endless
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when all is said and not forgotten may it be known to me & leave behind
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What we got eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2…

What we got

God so loved the world he gave us all hand-me-downs: a half-used box of crayons and a bent but sharpened knife. What we draw from this or carve into flesh is whatever we make it. The rainbow and th…

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subway boy eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2…

subway boy

suppose a brown-skinned boy walked to the scratched-up vegan glass at the place you work with soft light in his tree bark eyes and talked about how a redwood grows from a sapling, wiry and sharp-li…

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The lobby eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2…

The lobby

strangers look at me like they’ve borrowed love off me before. like they’ve come to return it now, but they’ve taken a better, longer look at me and decided maybe after all, I pas…

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Jazmine and I with cobra lilies eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2…

Jazmine and I with cobra lilies

near a serpentine rock ledge wet from a seeping slope the greens of the cobra lily’s veiny body feathers light a wasp, caught in the drowse of sunlight, inspects and enters an opening into th…

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gulls mewling loudly carry the sunset from here unto there
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this is a life-time friendship; the poem is short, inadequate &, except for a word, totally redundant.
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& you are at the door. walking up the stairs, do you have anything to say to me?
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& they, i don't know if i'm right, won't accept because they have given & we, having taken, now wanting to give, find it all given.
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Aisle 4

after jonathan lyndon chase my aerosol blood boils as I exchange electric silence for a pack of gum. I can feel the cashier staring me down. my salted nerves. his eye to door, hand threading to pho…

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How to be alone – an antidote to one of the central anxieties and greatest paradoxes of our time themarginalian.org/2014/09/0…

How to Be Alone: An Antidote to One of the Central Anxieties and Greatest Paradoxes of Our Time

“We live in a society which sees high self-esteem as a proof of well-being, but we do not want to be intimate with this admirable and desirable person.”

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