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Literature Text
are not my eyes
and your eyes
hallucinations
or creation's
illustrations
but to identify
eyes as anything
but eyes
one stops short
of all the depth
deep behind them
Literature
ambiverts
this fulsome disguise an introvert’s heart but an extrovert’s eyes keeps the shadow work soft as we grow back our sharpest claws for the rest of the night
Literature
An Editor's Note
I lose half dream on Thursday
and there are no heartstrings to vibrate and echo in its absence
no word that’s decent enough
to take its place
there is not the tentative pause of a movie -
the moment before lips touch
on Thursday I lose half a dream and say
‘oh’
I am told that I will meet people with the universe rubbed into their skin
those who carry themselves like an unused jacket
half off the hanger
I will meet people with sick souls or bird throats
people with a laugh like flat stones skidding across a glass lake
those who talk about their dogs too much or drink straight from the milk carton
people who are thawing in
Literature
We Live Into Each Other
i clutch this truth to my heart
to the dark and light
in my chest, your soul
has a nest here, a soft refuge, that
must have been collecting, unnoticed
for the entire before, of the us we are now
before death's pressure-quiet depths,
our airy-high joys and the breathlessness
pinned pulsating onto each
i'd been saving it all, both
for you and the me you hauled up
from the numb of an oh-so-low below
when i say my best friend is Love
it's more about everything in the poetry
that we live into each other
the lives we've lost and gained
as well as the way itself, its footfalls
step to the gentle ghost rhythm of our song
my best fri
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what goes beneath someone's eyes sometimes isn't the same with that goes in their hearts too.