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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Deep Waters
I dive
When passion touches heart and skin
I dive
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Is It a Violation?
If he is in-between worlds when
his hand grabs my vulva without invitation,
is it still a violation,
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96%
We were 96%, according to the Cupid.
We mixed our traditional and our liberalism
on our inked-up arms
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Client Confidentiality
My friend came to me today
invoking the “client confidentiality” clause.
She needed me to be therapist for an hour
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A Kosher Word for Love
I have been telling you “I love you” in my head
for a good long week now.
It is too early,
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You did
I did not build a mountain from a molehill,
shoveling earth with each circulation of thought
until exhaustion set in
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Half-Way’s a No Way
Reaching, reaching always giving
Time and heart and depth of living
I give too much, it’s too much for you
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Riding the Spectrum
I have a sneaking suspicion
that I could be placed
somewhere on a spectrum.
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Gossamer
You vulnerable
offering up surrender
in linear practical terms
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Practicing a Patience I Do Not Feel
From now on,
I’m not gonna give away nothing.
No more confessions,
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