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Ashes to Ashes: There’s a precision in privation A peculiar contract We had far too many vices to betray one another I a..

Composition of a tear: The only ones to see them clearly Know the desperation of those to whom the dirt clings You would think ..

Disappearing Act: I find stillness Beside pangs of suspension. I’m worn; dull around the edges As sea glass and just as..

Avid Reader: I think of you often Rake the nails of my memory Across an itch beneath my skin; My need for you. Your absence..

“As soon as the world knows the beautiful are beautiful, then there is ugliness.” �"Tao Te Ching For you, I wo..

D-L-R-O-W: Captivity had taken to me State time I qualified… And you, You haggard psych Absently fondle a phantom..

Gift: You give me my sustenance, The very buoyancy of my solitude. You tamed the unmanagability of Warming alone. You ..

Nectar’s Wrench: My tears can’t cleanse my soul, Just like my blood can’t stitch my Gaping wounds. My cu..

Husk: Within this kiln, I bake Becoming warm copper. I have not yet wilted enough though, So I scald and carve arid flesh ..

Five Days and a Wake-Up: Everything had paled and faded; Like the pasty complexion of Our chaplainess, sputtering at the Mar..