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scheherazade

A Poem by jaye river

departed rulers and empires long gone,beaten black dogs gnashing their teeth like waves battering against the shorea princess in a palanquin, resolved..

white-faced fawn

A Poem by jaye river

dewy grass in late spring rustling under feeble footsteps, the soil that nurtures the leaves is wet and dark. a fawn rubbed his face into the soil, an..

daphne

A Poem by jaye river

sentimental injury, moon-bather, eternal laurel leaves atopmy messy hair, crowning meto kill and to love - two things you can do with bare hands uncon..

proserpine / saturnine

A Poem by jaye river

i. proserpineyou can change your life with a single seed,or maybe a handful, butnot even your hands can carry my grief,red sticky sweet, twisted wrist..

mango

A Poem by jaye river

i still remember what you said when iasked you what your own heaven would be,48 degrees, with mango trees -it’s quiet, not loud, a soft warm bre..

english strawberry

A Poem by jaye river

our old house with the small peach treethat grew alongside my bedroom window,the fruit was sweet and the branch hung low.we moved out after winter of ..

peach pit

A Poem by jaye river

pulling strings between fingers,i feel the weight of my limbs as i move,i’ll break skin on shattered glass, i’m a real girland i bleed lik..

pretty girls like dead stars

A Poem by jaye river

i want to hurt like pretty girls, it’sthe god awful truth, ashamed to admitto something so ugly and unfiti want to be worthy of the hurt,i want ..

lemon sweet sour

A Poem by jaye river

suck me up, lemon sweetsour in your mouth, licking saltoff the rim of the glass, beat poetrydouble manhattan, bitter taste beatsbrooklyn in the rain, ..

all flesh is grass (and not to yield)

A Poem by jaye river

all flesh is grass, red - the fire, and black, the ashwhite phosphorus clouds coveringa glimmering light, holy ground andancient walls, a crucible of ..