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First Graders
“Is there a word for one step further than fear? When fear breaks through the walls. A machete swinging. While you sit glazed over in the rubble.”
What A Shame
“It's strange and extraordinary. To stand here looking over the waterfall. Closer to the end sooner than I expected. Feeling the threat of death spray my face”
NIGHTBIRDE
“Bullet holes and bruises And some kind of story. Some kind of miracle.
Some kind of bird that sang through the night”
A Single Firefly
“There is a single firefly flashing in the field tonight. Blinking slow and steady, watching for an answer back”
Winter
“The trees are sleeping, no kindling to be gathered. All we have is what we have built when the days were long. And they have shortened their answer. To only an exhale”
Whole
“If my spirit could make a sound. It would crumble freeway bridges It would shake the clouds so violently. That they would forget how to be clouds. Just like l've forgotten what it feels like To be whole”
A Break in the Treeline
“He strapped me down and spoon-fed me Injustice, confusion, and rage Until I was too full to move. He told me this is all there is.”