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Mon Mar 20, 2023 5:26 am
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YES I LOVE THE TITLE
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Self-Portrait as an Inferno

At first the fire feels good, kisses your skin as if
you’re a delicate secret. Then it burns: like a bruise

or a bad dream. A slow letting-go of everything you
are & everything you want to be. They tell you this

is what it means to be a woman: to be called bad
names but never your own. So you make your own

fire & call it magic. Let yourself transform into
everything you’re not supposed to be & submit to

the alchemy. Your shadow is like ash: the aftermath
of a burning. You are only victim to the fires that

make you. Maybe, if you let the land burn,
it will become nothing but a bleeding memory.
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Mon Apr 03, 2023 2:32 am
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anatomy of a still-growing body

the doctor diagnoses you as trying. and maybe that's enough: no need for delicately carved marble, skin smooth like stone. because you can learn to rework yourself from a statue frozen in the shadows to a framework of the future. dust that clung to your lungs will turn to kisses. there is nothing permanent about the past–even sculptures can be chiseled away, dissected for what they pretend to be. after all, you will always be yourself. whatever that means. (but you’ll always try to be something more)
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I want to write anatomy of a still growing body EVERYWHERE and remember it always <3
hush, my sweet
these tornadoes are for you


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ingénue

if i could speak another language maybe
i would know enough of myself to be able to
call i what it is. not to leave anything up for
interpretation. yet here i am: take me for all
that i am and leave me for everything i’m not.
i am tired. i have seen too much. or have i just
seen too little? my eyes have gotten sore from
searching for something that’s not there, words
i cannot speak, lives i will never know. je ne
sais pas ou aller. je suis perdue.
i am sorry.
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Fri Apr 07, 2023 5:49 am
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if our memory was tangible

it would be landlocked territory
between the points of you and me.
it would be days lost like loose change,
a sweat-slick slipping of summer down
our throats. and so empires fall, seasons
sigh with the swaying of the tide. if our
memory was tangible, we would be left
empty-handed.
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Sat Apr 08, 2023 4:35 am
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the moon is bleeding

grow into yourself in the glow of the traffic lights. let yourself get lost on unfamiliar roads & then return to the place you call home in this neon haze: this is how you define dying. there are so many bodies to bury. so many memories to burn. it’s easy to break yourself in the process. if you could, you would beg for a new beginning. but all you have is a blood moon, red light reflecting back at you.
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homesickness

she creeps up on you with her
skeletal arms, suffocating, like
an unwelcome season. when she
settles upon you, she stays
unmoving, as if to say you can’t
leave this time
.
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Sun Apr 09, 2023 11:32 pm
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i always end up empty, and it is a fury i’ve never known.

if you could, you would beg for a new beginning. but all you have is a blood moon, red light reflecting back at you.

it would be landlocked territory / between the points of you and me.


your poetry is always so stunning, but these lines really stood out to me. there's just something about them, and the only way i can describe it is truly poetic. it's the stuff you imagine when you think about poetry. it's good.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
  





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Tue Apr 11, 2023 4:55 am
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GOSH! So much strong poetry! I had to read a couple of these twice.

I'm always a big fan of a strong list-poem, so the 5 stages of grief one especially intrigued me, and your take on it was beautiful and heart-achey.

A lot of these seem like a meditation on "the self" - and I love how you're able to make these introspective and philosophical without them being too "thinky" or like a big inner-monologue without like a physical manifestation / concrete imagery. You do a great job of balancing that!

I think these lines are my very favorite so far:

then return to the place you call home in this neon haze: this is how you define dying. there are so many bodies to bury. so many memories to burn.


Each turn is unexpected, but some fitting metaphors to think about in there and gritty imagery throughout.

Looking forward to reading more, these have all been a treat to read so far!

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you should know i am a time traveler &
there is no season as achingly temporary as now
but i have promised to return
  





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Tue Apr 11, 2023 5:12 am
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phantasm says...



summers leaves scars on our skin

summer & the sky is falling. we peel apart
this heatwave, feverish day with our teeth,
hungry to know the warmth for what it is—
not soft or tender like a mother, but forceful and
unapologetic like a rumor, creeping its way
into our gums & eating at the bone. summer
& the sky is falling. we feel a part of ourselves
we’ve never known—& we are learning to unlearn
how the sun has told stories & stolen the sky from us.
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