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I’ve been here before, dreaming myselfbackwards, among grappling hooks of light.True to the seasons, I’ve lived every wordspoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?
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Go & tell your drinking buddies& psychoanalyst your neighborhas risen from the ashes. I wonderif I should tell you about the love lettershidden behind the doorjamb. This housestill stands among my lavender flowers.Tell your inheritors to think of mewhen they smile up at the sky.
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Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the heat& smell of gunpowder, making moneyfloat from hand to hand. The next momenta rocket pushes a white fistthrough night sky, & they scatter like birds& fall into the shape their liveshave become.
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I ate mythology & dreamt'- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)
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I'm turning you into a girlchasing a butterfly, a she-wolfon a hilltop, & then back into a woman.
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A goddess of dawnscooted under a zing of barbed wireto witness your birth.
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We were born between Oh Yeah& Goddammit. I knew lifeBegan where I stood in the dark,Looking out into the light,& that sometimes I could seeEverything through nothing.The backyard trees breathedLike a man running from himselfAs my brothers backed awayFrom the screendoor.
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Years ago you followed someonehere, in love with breathkissing the nape of your neck,back when it was easy to beat least two places at once.
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See how forgiving - how brave nature is.
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