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  • Notes at allpoetry
    You aren’t real anymore and I disown our memories,
    (Not that there ever were any sober),
  • Evasion at allpoetry
    Those little infidelities
    that slip from the prongs of a fork
  • Recognition at allpoetry
    You remind me of a lot of things
    as you smile and dimples
  • Kissing Necklaces at allpoetry
    Heartbeat under the palm
    of my hand,
  • Torn at allpoetry
    This Alice-band of guilt
    and a broken ring in my lip;
  • Abstinence at allpoetry
    Not a bite,
    A good girl will never swallow –
  • Chalk-Dust On My Collar at allpoetry
    My melodies sit in the palm of your hand,
    Fragile as these bones you tended,
  • Presque Vu at allpoetry
    Whorls of my fingertips exchanging
    Cells, cells, cells with something
  • The Judge at allpoetry
    He hammers the hammer on the wooden circle
    A murderous murmur sweeping the tiers
  • Elephants and Matchsticks at allpoetry
    Elephants and matchsticks caught in combat;
    Dirty girl
  • The World Through A Spoon at allpoetry
    Graphite dots,
    Looking at the world through a spoon.
  • Parachute at allpoetry
    The strum of tangled wire cutting into
    This deformed puppet
  • Walking In Autumn at allpoetry
    Out of the misty memory landscape
    Where ropes cling
  • Dandelions and Demons at allpoetry
    How I love the acidity of emptiness,
    I find such beauty in the agony of shrinking.
  • Oblivion at allpoetry
    Memories snaking away into the
    Crop of stars that pass away to oblivion.
  • Love Affair at allpoetry
    He came to my bed and saw my ribs,
    Eyes bright and the golden strands woven in his hair;
  • Neverland at allpoetry
    The last threads of innocence are breaking
    As the sprite pulls free to fly
  • Urban Hell at allpoetry
    Walking in your urban hell,
    All the rust clinging to your hands as you stumble
  • You Know Best at allpoetry
    Why am I forbidden from anger when you destroy my opinion,
    bait me and accuse me of irrationality?
  • Willow Pattern at allpoetry
    My gold hidden deep in you,
    Your rainbow skin and willow pattern lips.
  • Addictive Narcotic at allpoetry
    Addictive narcotic,
    The burns your hands and lips have left
  • Butterfly Man at allpoetry
    Effervescent colour rests,
    The purity of green in stark contrast
  • Contemplations With Starlight at allpoetry
    One day I might wake up
    to find that I cannot recall the freckle
  • [ The twang of the acoustic escaping ] at allpoetry
    It would spill out against citrus orange
    as fire does against the morning sun, half-blended,
  • The Lives and Words of Men at allpoetry
    But he shall never know what comes after him,
    Forgotten in his cradle of earth,
  • Dawn at allpoetry
    Lifting further, the King of Day rises,
    His eyes to open and spread golden silk upon this place,
  • The Madness at allpoetry
    Steal my frontal lobe and prefrontal cortex
    in this non-consensual lobotomy,
  • Passive Blue at allpoetry
    And when others turned away,
    the Passive Blue was there
  • Ode to an A Level History Class at allpoetry
    We’ve come this far,
    We’ve reached the end,
  • Voltaire and a Bottle of Wine at allpoetry
    Voltaire and a bottle of wine,
    Candle on and electricity out
  • To The Sea at allpoetry
    Each fragmented lightening second stunning my skin,
    The waves break over me,
  • Guilty Bones at allpoetry
    Ten thousand miles on these feet, Two unbitten nails
  • Carousel at allpoetry
    His lighter was broken –
    Do you have a light?
  • The Brains In The Family at allpoetry
    Yellow marshmallows behind my eyes
    Like when we used to stare at the bathroom light for too long
  • Metal Euphoric at allpoetry
    My metal euphoric,
    Curled up with machines