The math of this isn’t diminishment
always
if expansion is imagined———
The target?
Innate, guileless, innocent, and simple
intentions, plans, and creativity
To be is to be one
of the many soldiers
of fortune.
look out your window
at the budding trees
and the neighbors that continue to add rings to their trunks,
and the homes that have planted firm, dense roots in their foundations.
If I feign weakness, we can feel special together. He will feel like a man. I’ll wait to laugh until he leaves.
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Moses
is in the rushes,
stillborn.
I was always such a picky eater as a child, the mere thought of trying new foods would make me so nervous and scared that I would cry sometimes.
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I surrender a poem instead into your steady palm,
which lies open on my thigh, waiting.