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Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
What we talk about when we talk about Sufjan Stevens lemon yogurt: white like new shoes before spring, with little clumps of yellow sun. lemon yogurt: you eat with a ...
Apr 20, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
Shoehorn everything is a love poem if you twist your arms behind your back, cut your hair, scrape the skin off your heels with a nail file. everything is a ...
Apr 17, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
excuse me is a threat of slamming chests or brushing shoulders getting close to someone you'll never know
Apr 17, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
YOUR LOVE IS SCARY like climbing a firetower, waiting in my basement for a tornado to pass. MY LOVE IS CHEAP like Diet Coke from a fountain machine, Newports from ...
Apr 16, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
from April 13th Lean lean into me: my body, all the water of the world, will hold you. lean into me: my nails will trace your soft birchbark skin. lean ...
Apr 16, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
from April 12th I grow my nails long sea shell breaths: hot and long on the phone your white foam ocean spray the muscles in my hands (meant to strangle ...
Apr 13, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
St. Paul Men call me beautiful. I chomp my carrot.
Apr 12, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
a prayer (my very first) kiss me on my Adam’s apple when I tell you I am something bruised and bottom-barreled, kiss me on my Adam’s apple when I tell ...
Apr 11, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
written April 9th happy mud hands happy mud hands undressing faster than self-replicating molecules sloppy wet kisses hot like the bottom of the ocean before moon & earth collide
Apr 10, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
written April 8th WE'VE NEVER SEEN SNOW ash came like winter spilling from the thighs of woman. we caught grey flakes on our tongues. spilling from our thighs: babies without ...
Apr 10, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
I order a crow’s skull off the internet I order a crow’s skull off the internet. I need somewhere cool to rest my fingers. Everything I touch sets my skin ...
Apr 8, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
I promise I wrote this poem on April 6th. My day was a little crazy and I didn't have time to post until now. Reversed High Priestess on her back: ...
Apr 8, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
My ancestors speak I My great-grandmother tied her baby boy to a wooden Crucifix on the hot nights when he couldn’t stop tearing the flesh from his bones. II He ...
Apr 5, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
comfortable hole comfortable hole (once a vegetable garden, before that rows of peonies) you and your lover will lie down (hands or lips locked) to wait (sleeping) for the next ...
Apr 4, 2018 -
Re: my mother, the purist, says people in love don’t need props
Call me by your hometown ghost line: I am hungry and this is where I eat. You are swallowing flies in the alley behind the Church, dark for the sake ...
Apr 4, 2018