Monthly Archives: February 2012
There was an Ocean and We Could Not Drink
When I say that you are the only one that I have ever wanted, I don’t say it because not saying it feels like eating sand stone crushed again— the tiny grains digging into my teeth almost the imperceptibles cracks … Continue reading
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I Used To Believe In Nothing Like It Was Something
My boyfriend plans our vacation around things I don’t believe in. In Scotland we’ll traipse around Loch Ness and get postcards that feature blurry photos of what cannot be there. And in Ireland he wants to visit the island of … Continue reading
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Like a Poem Day
(Inspired by Matthew Zapruder’s “Lampday”) They say that there is a holiday for everything. My favorite is the one when we celebrate everything that can’t be done in poems. We fill our lines with hearts and light and love. Every … Continue reading
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what is ghost translated as in other languages
What I want to tell you is every secret I know about myself. I want to tell you the things that I dream about but don’t remember in the morning. There are faces of people who I only know in … Continue reading
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Upon Repeating the story of the time I worked for Baba Yaga
Her house was easy to find; there are not so many built on chicken legs. She gave me a broom upon entry and so I swept. The dust rose into the light and formed phantoms; … Continue reading
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Sometimes We Break With Eachother
Last night you dreamt that your lover spent his nights as a tiger; stalking amongst trees, paws leaving indents across the earth that if viewed from above would show he paced circuits around your home, getting closer and closer but … Continue reading
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3 Ways to Miss
That was the last conversation that we had. I feel as if I’m falling into some sort of liquid silence sometimes when I think about it: it’s like a pool with no lights on and after I hit the water … Continue reading
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Last Night You Said You Saw Divinity
Do you have some idea of god? Not as concept, as person, as being, but a knowing like the taste of sugared water, sweet, the time you drank it accidentally before the humming- birds could reach it. Did you have … Continue reading
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Be Social, Be Social, But Not Too Social
You said you wanted to follow me on Twitter. It’s because when you asked if I liked to Tweet, I thought you asked if I liked Tweety. I nodded since I grew up on those cartoons, you know? That little … Continue reading
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Lines for Someone I Almost
1 It was a strange case of nothing. Our hands filled up with palm line fortunes that just couldn’t be read. Untranslatable futures mistaken for something divine. Here is where you said that all lines ended and still I held … Continue reading
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