Tag: free verse
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first loves
we don’t talk about them muchthe ones who taught our heartshow to mispronounce forever.they smelled like folded dresses,faintly of naphthaleneand said things like alwaysand promiseand meant ituntil they didn’t.and now every songis a door we don’t open,every photographa city we can’t go back to.but godfor a momentdidn’t it feellike we invented love?
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ordinary glory
i wake up before the alarm’cause the birds don’t believe in schedules.they just singlike rent’s paidand peace is permanent.i stretch my bodylike signing a treatybetween my bones and the daylight.coffee first’cause prayer without caffeineis too abstract.i check the inbox:yesterday’s emails look back at melike old regretsand i tell them, hush,we’re learning patience today.outside, the mail…
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the morning i watered the plant
i didn’t think much of itjust poured what was left in the glassonto that dusty stemthat hadn’t bloomed in two yearsit leaned, tiredlike it had decided silencewas easier than trying againi wiped the leaves with my shirttold it,“you still here, huh?”and went on making coffeeby the time i came backone leaf had straightened itselflike somebody…
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light rehearses itself
we strike a matchagainst the edge of yesterday,and suddenly the dark forgets its name.this is the world rememberinghow to see itself.lamps lean forwardlike curious children,asking the night if it still believesin forgiveness.somewhere, a flame whispersinto another flame,and the air blushes,ashamed of its own silence.quietly, we lightwhat was always burning,beneath the soot of our forgetting.dear diwali,or…
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