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my cowboy and his dreams



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LadySpark says...






the longer it touches his(my) skin becomes my(his) skin.


it's a western, henry
it's a downright shoot-em-up.
we've made a graveyard out of the bone white afternoon.




the first chapter.

i spend what feels like years walking up and down your rocky mountain spine.
i am your cowboy, a lone wolf— a solitary statue against a lovelorn black night
my stars are strung out between your two slivered yellow moons, sliced right down the middle


the middle chapters.

the underbrush catches on fire before you can stamp it out with your boots.
this place is fighting us, telling us we’re not meant to be (here). it shouldn’t be this hard to live off the land
and yet there’s something like poison stuck between the sun cracks in your skin that makes it hard for you to breathe right.
this mountain air makes your chest rattle.

my whiskey blood runs dry

i have to fold myself into a letter to get you to notice me. over the fire,
between our tent and the stars— it doesn’t matter.
what are you looking at if you don’t see me? is there something out there? should i be worried?
take your wings of a hawk and go find a safe place to land on the edges of my horizon.
i understand if you can’t take me with you.


the last chapter.

a mass exodus, nothing but love left in a desolate plane. you, me— a buffalo.
we can survive a face off with a dead animal, but what if it's still alive?

i don't get the wild west. give me homegrown corn, give me midwest tornadoes.
your unpredictability exists in the unknowingness of where you end and where my horoscope picks up—
you will meet someone who will uproot your life and leave you broken on the side of a highway
before you realize the bleeding x's they have for eyes.

dead on arrival.

you, me, or the buffalo?

who's ready? who can draw their pistol the fastest? who can outrun that tumbleweed?

who can say i love you before the fire burns out? a last lone call against the blanket of night.
not you. not me. certainly not the buffalo.


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First
hush, my sweet
these tornadoes are for you


-Richard Siken


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LadySpark says...



I.


i write pages and pages - poetry i see strung out between your stars
catching the beam cast out of my lighthouse (searching, searching, searching).
it doesn't matter how many times i repeat your name like a prayer,
how many times i feel your syllables roll off my candy coated tongue.
you always look at me like it's the first time i've ever said it.
darling, i would know you and your name even if i forgot every word i ever knew.
hush, my sweet
these tornadoes are for you


-Richard Siken


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alliyah says...



darling, i would know you and your name even if i forgot every word i ever knew.


This line!!! Ahh poetry perfection! Very strong start.

Looking forward to reading more this month Spark! You've got this! <3
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