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- she had never dreamed
of freedom, but
gradually a
thousand years of sentiment
cracked and
fell from around her bones
Literature
but the stars are too loud to hear them
it's a summer night again. i think
it has been a million years since i lived
through a summer night.
everything is so much louder in summer,
the windows thrown wide and the whole world
shouting, echoing up from the street,
and that screaming aching space between the window pane
and my heart, where
the late scent of lilacs
burrowed, where your hands clawed at the glass
and i let you in
with the breeze and the laughing
cinquefoil faces.
where is the dull neglectable roar,
washed away in the sweet tides of everything blooming,
new colors crying out for the stars
to fall on their petals,
and lift them up,
and let them in
to the bleak brightness
Literature
Patriot
driving through town, i saw him,
through misty,
bespectacled eyes
and
he saw me too. weary,
but enduring.
amidst the haze,
he conjured the fog of factory funnels,
half-built steel ships on the docks.
Cranes once lined the sky,
now they build banks and he calls it a tragedy.
in a puff of smoke,
he steals glass towers, replacing
them with redbrick
terraces. paints in monochrome
on the pastel-blue sky.
his city has two football clubs
and he hates one of them. his wife
hates the other but they both
breathe sea air and radio waves,
he holds her hand
through weddings
and funerals.
just how he remembers it,
the wind, the cold air as you emerge
Literature
waterproof
sea foam regrets
wash this lacerated heart
with saline baptisms
of undying love
(and etch their
wretched revelations
on mausoleum walls).
your ancient ruins
still stand undefeated
by impudent waves
(like overexposed
polaroids showcased in
empty exhibitions).
and it's futile
exorcising
my heart of
your remnants
(because all
graveyards need
ghosts to
haunt them).
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