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ambition

The curtains fluttered against her legs
she stood solidly
her dead eyes
locked onto the ant farm
below
 
So many attempts to fly
flirting with glimpses of
success
 
She’d held on to her dreams
for so very long
despite betrayal
 
And now
with one step
her dreams would hold her
 
completely

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framed

I look through you
you open the world to me
my umbilical cord to the universe of clarity
 
basically
you frame my eyes
but to onlookers
you frame my appearance
and my abilities
 
intelligent
reserved
aesthetic
definitely not athletic!
 
my!
 
how small frames
thus worn
open all possibilities to me
yet close them
to those who see

(Dedicated to anyone who wears glasses)

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Tight

i am a limpet
in love
 
if i choose you
and
you, foolishly, choose me
i will leap
from the ground
and
wrap my arms
and legs
about you
tightly
tangled
in your hydroponic focus
 
giddy
and scalp bleeding
i promise
to grow a
lethal barnacle
around our love
cutting any
who
try to
crowbar
us
apart

with warmth
and moisture
between us
we grow our own
food
and live
oblivious
 
to
genocide
toxic contamination
and global warming
in our
pearly shell house
 

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losing you (alternatively named – that putrid organ inside me that is intent on my destruction)

I miss your arms so
and i’m slow and clumsy at parting
the stoic cynical me
pretends i’m used to losing
but deep down
i’m just paddling
to keep myself from drowning
one breath
at a time
is hard enough to manage

Published in Crannog, Ireland.