Twinkle

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First Born

Today
Happiness comes to me
Very simply
It is the Yellow Wax Beans I planted as hard, white seeds
Unfurling
Breaking through black soil in neat little rows
Moving upward,
Straightening themselves
Reaching for the sun

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Normal

Uncombed hair and creamy skin
The dream of being 10 again
Shelby doesn’t know
That youth is synonymous to words like
Simple
Free
Beautiful
She knows the difference between herself
And the kids down the street
She knows that gifts are just symbols of a lifestyle
She can’t go home to
And she sits very close to me
On the couch
Looking for a mother
In places most people [...]

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The Color of Spring

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Broken Promises and Kitchen Sinks

Last month,
He married the girl he left me for
Almost 8 years ago
I still remember the final argument
How instead of yelling, like he always did,
He was silent
And when I finally turned to look at him
Sitting in the passenger seat of my car
He just kept looking out of the window
And every ounce of love
He’d ever had for [...]

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Pregnant at 16

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Practice

Separating roots from soil
Learning the feeling of dirt against my skin
If I let another in
There will be nothing left
Of me
So I’m taking a moment to spread seeds
Preparing a womb
Outside of
This body
 
I want to see growth
And feel success
I want progress to be measurable
In terms of
Water
Sunshine
And
Nutrients

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Natural

Anything
To see you smile and laugh
While rolling your eyes
And slapping your hand down
On the table
 
It is the way you look at me
That I miss the most
It cuts right through
The walls I have spent weeks
Putting up
 
The hardest thing to break
Is the connection we have
Underneath these
Skins
It penetrates distance
And restrictions
 
My love isn’t something you can fail
At

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