Stood alone at the dance floor’s edge.
Exposed skin glinting wicked silver,
jewellery worn like protective armour,
bare feet firmly planted on checked tiles,
donning a defensive stance.
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The oranges in the bowl have moulded over,
fending off the cold from the cracked window.
Flies kiss them gently, as they age and carve out
weathered wrinkles forming on their backs.
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Entwined with each other
Lying in the silence of the night,
Your Vernier caliper
My coffee mug,
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I’ve noticed I only get nostalgic when I’m lonely.
Even with the life I’ve left behind me, there’s something
that I’m missing, like the trinkets that spilled out of the
overpacked trunk of the car in front of us on the way to Ohio;
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don’t you think?
what more could you ask for?
maybe a tin man or a cowardly lion
maybe anything apart from what I am
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Above, the winds blew sorrowful
Tears from the weeping sky,
Which wet the hair of that woeful
Girl who sunk her head to hide
Beneath the shelter of her brow,
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It’s as simple as this: her hair looked soft on her cheek
And it took my breath away, my heart
In a thousand pieces- I never decided this,
Longed to ignore it, to not imagine
What could be, don’t you think I tried
To lock it all inside of me?
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