june poems (10)

this hurt
like glass i swallow
shredding my tongue
taking the words

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big bang

imagine everything pressed tight-
hot exploding. beautiful;
violent:
that's you.

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This beautiful sun.
This minute before 7.
Notes of hallelujah spilling from the quiet radio.
This memory of you stirring in my heart.
This love, this ache.

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remember how slow
the world used to move every day a
drop of light caught in beads
of oil remember night's laughter black
and gold tumbling through the tall grass remember
falling?
how heavy it felt bringing me to you

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you, a mirage that
pooled
in cracked skin, on
bonedry lips,

i lick myself to taste just
a dream of ran

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06132016

We lock dead eyes, we
love by chance, lungs
plumped on dust. Above us,
satyrs dance.

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the sea betrays its
deepest wish, to dissipate
and kiss the moon's smile.

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if i'm a piece of meat

know: you can lick me dry
but the ugly story of your teeth
will be written on my bones.

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if my heart is a flower,
it's sick
and never opens to the sun,

only daring to love
the rain on its crinkled skin
promising the sky in every dying dance

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I go

beyond the promises of birds,
where time runs like a stream down
summer's endless throat,
remembering the scent of apples
your golden eyes and tight tongue coiled
only like a chill that recedes, here
where waves lick away my melting eyes,
I wait for you.