woohoo good job everyone & good luck avian, your poetry is beautiful.
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thingsleftinlastyear
sixteen / my childhood home / some lover carved into a dogwood tree stump / limbs tangled together on the couch / limbs tangled together on my bed / cracks in the wall & the other spaces i dont fit anymore / the scale in the bathroom / anywhere i have had a body, even once / all of the closure i have never gotten / my grandmothers urn / womanhood bastardized / every symbol of what is to come
night eats the sun & stains the world orange with our memories. we have always existed here; the streetlamps fill our mouths with gold dust & whisper our secrets to the dewy grass beneath our feet.
maybe you can run your palm along the groves of my mind & feel the melancholy that resides there. maybe you can taste the dandelions on my chin before you go because we know that we will not last. we know that we are only finite.
& what i mean is that i want to open my chest & hold my heart out for you so you can see that this moment is not just us but it is everything we will ever be.
all the words i forever keep hidden under my tongue taste like tangerine slices & smoke.
Excellent work everyone! It was such a treat to see all the variety of different poems.
"I've got dreams like you--no really!--just much less, touchy-feeley. They mainly happen somewhere warm and sunny on an island that I own, tanned and rested and alone surrounded by enormous piles of money." -Flynn Rider, Tangled
good job everyone & good luck avian, your poetry is beautiful. 
