RESTRAINT

These dark and brittle splendors,

These sleek and bitter shards,

With necks longer than most

Like sunflowers tilting to one singular blaze

Bobbing their thick-cheeked beauty in a single wave-

What cherub’s breath could fan such a fatherly ambition?

I haven’t known you to amble on...

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JACKET

What is a dissolute life?

A Nicola Six bloom

Palely splashed on a motorbike seat

And an ivory limb

splashed tirelessly across the sheet.

There was never an us, remember?

 

That was the point.

 

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WHEN YOUR FAMILY LETS YOU VISIT

What light falls

In thick, broken pieces

These pristine chubby fingers

Warming themselves against my children

What short nest wires

That curl up around their soft, dented skulls

Hang lazily over every limb.

And what a tall sky of doom towers above them

Those feet and feet and...

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3 WISHES

If one day I woke, I was told I had 3 wishes, I'd wish for Cashius to be home and give him lots of kisses. I would hold, hug and cherish the moment, take a picture in my head, keep it and own it. After at least a full month of kissing, wish 2 would be, The whole damn family and me...

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Falling for you

Hold her close don't let her get hurt
don't let her cry don't even let her shed a tear


its all the fear in her eyes she looked up to you you lost your mind by letting her go


but its okay now because you talked we cried we both said sorry


you held your baby close again you had the...

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