Mind like a koi pond
Water— color
18th century behind gold frames
Eyes swimming knowing and learned
Searching slowly for new perspectives
Corners of the same thing
The secrets in black moss
Filing away every shade of green
Somewhere in the middle of 300 years
Stretching like full length in the morning
I recognize the irony of working in fashion when I am key a nudist – if I had it my way we wouldn’t wear clothes at all but since that’s illegal I might as well curate a vibe
They’re playing daft punk adjacent music in this expensive French restaurant
I wonder if the truth is so two dimensional it can only be seen from one perspective
It’s just another day
But it’s not is it
It’s the moment time folds
Compounding rouge
Proving love to surpass
Time space death
Brain on loan
Something’s gotta give
And I too wonder if I am a woman to love
Looks like I still got something to prove
Making love in a koi pond
Across the road where all
The cars kiss and the women hold
Hands and rain is sweet
Where cold is not so brisk when you’re
In love
Modesty unnecessary in rooms and
Corridors where eyes drink deeply of
Nourishment
I saw the moon in a puddle
And with myself I cuddled
The perfume of being
And being alive
Pebbles on my skin
I count them and count myself worthy
Of every breath in between
Earnest Shackleton
At dinner
I’m crying
Just a boy
Who doesn’t owe me anything
Why does he smell so fucking good
No one’s gonna help me
No one’s gonna save me
And I don’t even know what I need to be
Saved from
I hit my head on a taxi
Boom boom
If you’re gonna cut me
Cut me on the bias
If you’re gonna kiss me
Kiss me –
If you’re gonna push me
Push me –
If you’re gonna grab me
Dance me
Sex me
Telepathic sex
Union Pacific
Building America
Mumbling every song at the top
Of my lungs
“You’re flat footed rn and that’s the problem”
My chat GPT always thinks it’s night
Know me by my cheeks
Know me by my undereyes undone by
Various shades of nudes pink peach
Know me as a tired young woman
A girl who spends
Her life her love her time
Know me as I am
Unwoven and unwise
Know me as a mother
Born through tears
Know me as a feather
A string of sunshine through the years
Know me as a lizard a sea bird
Know me as everything I feel when I
Lounge when I swim
Know the piercing bliss of the sparkles in my soul
Pop rocks and hot wheels and lips to hold
Names Ana, short for anaphora
Saw our initials carved into a table today
Dudes are starting to wear some weird sunglasses
Can a girl be a fella
I want to be anything to you
We drove into the sun
And now I see purple where it’s not supposed to be
The right love
nothing you can do to earn it
Nothing you can do to lose it
An animal and a child – she sleeps at my breast
Is there a greater honor
Than to be a steward of hearts?

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