Away
Emaciated
bones and need prominent.
I mask it in the voluminous clothing of patience and silence until
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Sabrina Santa Clara
The Other
They are well-connected,
comfortable in each other’s skin.
For them
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Bleeding out the Wound
I found out today that my beautiful, 17-year-old niece
Has been cutting
Up and down the sacred arm
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After Two Years of Dating in My Mid-Forties
After two years of dating,
I am weary of half-ways and fizzles
and men who have had the primal trained right out of them,
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Graveyard of Inconsequential Lovers
Several years it’s been going on.
The graveyard now in cramped quarters,
flimsy wood crosses
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Mice on the Circular Rack
The other side of push is the pull,
the get close pull away insanity
of never really landing
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We’re Not Big on Security Here
Our edges are torn unclean.
Our toes are jammed full of the earth we’ve trudged —
the clammy swampy river and the soft hot sand.
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Cat’s Out of the Bag
Skulking behind bushes and
under parked cars.
Keeping to the night shadows
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He Pulled Himself Away
He pulled himself away from me
like the medical tape I had to use
for months after six painful knee surgeries
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Surrender
Emotion
like San Francisco fog gliding over foothills
rich,
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Behind Steel Doors
Everyone says she fought with bravery
and how courageously she toughed it out.
She was one of those people,
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I Have an Acute Kind of Listening
that’s not entirely unlike psychosis,
difficult to distinguish if what I’m hearing
originates from the inside or the outside.
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