Sandwich Years

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poetry for people

Bullshit from the notes app

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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