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The Way You Move Me, pt. 1
I lifted a thought, Like a shy tendril of new green Or a slow unfurling of sunrise. And it was a thought of you. Up you went, past the crease between my eyes, Smoothing the frown that shades my brow Sifting through the queenly streaks on my crown You flew straight into the film of […]
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What He Whispered When I Woke
My bride, my dove, my perfect one I dream of you in eternity to be more dazzling than a supernova exploding in the sweetness of your breathing, I’ll whisper all the mysteries held in beautiful paradox and watch them blaze alive in your eyes, tongue, tears—oh center of my heart! You sometimes run and hide […]
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heartmouth
there are some whose hearts make the words they carry glimmer more than their weight in gold, diamonds, rubies and sapphire there are some within whose hearts lurk shadows and veils that mar and stain their words, make them stagger, limp, sigh, and expire
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Eyes to See
figuring it out to see a person is to love that person eyes to see are eyes of love, acceptance, mercy, compassion, grace, joy, hope and faith. eyes to see a person is to love that person, to be completely and irrevocably in love with the all-ness, fullness and redeemed brokenness of God’s […]
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hope hiding in broken castles
for Morgan & Cypress Hyacinth Your voice is a shadowy collection of ripped promises, Tattered colors, and emptied echoing rooms Of yet another man who has fled your fierce affection– Your father, your uncle, your nephew, your brother, your friend, That man, that man, and that man—you recount an endless String of faces […]
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epidermis
Because I want to know what color you are Unpeeled Underneath the layers and layers of that epidermal organ beneath which you reside to see the shade of purple in your veins the pulse of red in your arteries the exact trace of gold in your bone marrow, to see the sunburned subterranean of […]
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words to love
I can twist, pull, bend and curve words to sculpt iridescent images and caramel planets; Rearrange syntax I can like collisions of phrases stanzas and rhymes spinning From jab-jab-cross-uppercut across the lips into the very fire of their eyes, Exposing the most hidden stories inside their hearts I can unfurl alphabets on my tongue, spin […]
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unspecified floaters
[eagle drafts : one] sleeping eagle couched in your nest high upon the cliff you wait the dawn of a new day dreaming uncharted skies and how the breadth of galaxies would taste on your wings sleeping eagle couched in your nest high upon the cliff you awake [something fiercer] And I am overcome […]
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explosion one : fireworks are falling stars
a million sparks fly around me my skin lifts off this flesh this flesh lifts off of me and i am the million sparks spurred by explosion: the flying matter, comets and jets of little lightning bolts lightening the atmosphere; electrifying atoms shoot off the tips of my hair (these are the matters of glory […]
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january 5, morning
[2nd draft] The sun stampedes its rays through your window blinds. It is daylight. You sink further into the mattress, surrounding yourself in the thick cover that lingers an evergreen scent in your nostrils. This is one of those mornings. One of those mornings after; one of those mornings after you battled another thunderstorm that […]
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