evening breezes bring

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break, love, poem, poetry, sex, up, virgin

jasmine and rose

impregnate

the air

as we

orally

fixate.

virgins.

sweet kitty breath

sprinkles sand

about

our

shrunken ankles.

embrace tightens.

grip release deadens.

moons and daisies later,

at a sweat drenched, airport terminal

window

a 747 flies into helios.

in its glimmer and sizzle

we part.

inwardly

i shriek

“stay!”

deaf,

fernando orbs

foresee

future

folly and

forgets.

another

conquistador

cuts

commitments,

compassion,

caring.

Mergirl

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family, growing, mermaids, mother, up, youth

when i am six,

i grow up in a night

and take a big girl shower

instead of baby sitting bath.

my mother,

a vigilant bath watcher,

abandons me.

alone, i imagine

marine meditations.

with the waterfall behind me

i sprout mermaid.

i spy the shore and marvel

at how substantial sand castles

appear from a naive distance.

i lure seamen to their graves,

so i may swallow and spit their souls

rebirthing them as my guardians

and forever companions.

compassionate ghosts enthrall

my childhood.

as i become a tall child,

i simply stand letting the wet beads

twinkle finger my aching back.

swimming becomes paralysis.

palaces disappear.

water falls.

impact

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break, depression, grief, impact, love, pain, poem, regret, sadness, sex, snow, up

i am not sure i really want your return.

i just want to know if i had an impact.

i don’t want you to think me a mistake.

 

i know you know when i write you.

i don’t know if you read me.

 

no, this is not for all the loves whose absence i breathe.

this is directed completely at you.

 

when you came on my belly

and did not care that i didn’t,

you made an impact.

 

when you change your mind,

when you stop speaking to me,

when you believe the worse,

when you ignore me,

you make an impact.

 

impacted,

i freeze

even

as the snow

melts.