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15 the dying woman, with her fingers laced over her breastbone like roots only half-buried in loose soil, tilted her head back on its embroidered cushion and begged a kiss ...

14 This failing light dries into translucent husks of red: one for each ripening silhouet, the flat dark shapes sealed into sunpeels. Strange fruit. And the earth has scalped the ...

I really didn't feel like doing a proper poem, so... half-assed rewrite of something from two years ago, you can has it. 13 I have seen flawless marriages. My own ...

12 My father used to tuck his feet under the dog for warmth: his legs would move like the legs of a tourist, about to walk in snow shoes for ...

11 You are the girl with your name wrapped loosely around your shoulders, like the shawl of your grandmother's mother: too large and too well-made to fit your puzzlepiece parts ...

10 She was incapable of dealing with dandelions; she loved them unrequitedly and tried to spread them all about the lawn, while they dried slow, stubborn as old dogs, refusing ...

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Heyyy, I guess I should stop lurking at some point, right? So. Review. Yes. Blue Diamond I gave you a deep blue crystal the whitewater day before you left us. ...

08 Make your way through the woods with your hands held to your ribs, with the hot breath of a hunting dog condensing on the skin of your heels, slick ...

07 My mouth. A constellation of pain. Orion's belt in bloody stars. The discomfort of a yawn unfinished bubbling in the roof of it and did you know it is ...

06 If you would keep your child safe and sane give it up to the wolves while it is small: with them it will not know of sin or stain. ...

05 snow floats on the wind like willow leaves on water currents daubed with white. chase a single flake while around you the world dissolves stickily: your eyes will burn, ...

04 There once was a lady named Hannah Whose talent made me go bananas. But she was also cruel: Though I begged through the drool, She'd give me no drop ...

03 It's like this. The man is in love. He decides to give her a rose. A rose in full bloom, dense, intricate, suspiciously fractal, the whorl of its center ...

02 a cityscape of piled empty tupperware on the counter, and it's funny, isn't it, how transparency layered over transparency edges towards distortion, the fingerprints solidifying like cobwebs in the