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the wind kisses the leaves
they are charmed
turning yellow
blushing,
flushing orange


they shake in delight against the powdered sky,
whispering secrets in my ears


i watch the wind swim in the water,
trailing the sun


i lay down in blades of green, gazing at the carpet of clouds above me


the flame of the sun has quelled,
the powdered sky is stained cerise 
mirroring the leaves below that have reddened,
reddened to their fullest 


i feel them fall from that bark that once held them dear
they land on my chest in an embrace
becoming fabric,
becoming cloth to clothe me
and i begin to realize


i once flushed yellow
i too have blushed orange
one day, i will redden to my fullest


i am the same as those wind-kissed leaves
our fates are symmetrical 


soon, i will become lost in this same fabric that now adorns me



























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the air curls around your lips
i see the life you echo into wind
you echo into me


i seek refuge in you from myself
how i long to experience you
so completely
my presence ceases 


i am canvas for you
impress yourself upon me
paint me with your crimson dye


there’s no difference in our muscle
our blood has mingled


we are intimate with the maroon


























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red 
there’s turbulence in me
running through my blood
absorbed into my muscle  


how i wish to tame her,
to know how to instruct her bladed edge


she leaves you jagged
yet makes me whole


and as she wounds you,
i desire her arrest
i long for her to be pressed into silver fragments,
kissed to a brilliant dust,


so that she can dissolve into my gash,
so that we can cool to harden as one,
so that alchemy can anneal us to be capable of love


and so
i cast my heart sterling


























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rugged crystals and wilting flowers
true, unvarnished, pure
jagged edges and darkened petals
the observer is the best of lovers


who knew that eyes could carry such depth,
that those who dare wonder within them,
may travel for years,
only to become nomadic


to love is to have courage,
to venture into the flame


and i am blue with love


























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the price of seduction,
is the sale of that pulsing muscle,
the one i was entrusted with,
that heart that i hold in my palms


i traded it for lust when i gazed upon the dunes,
obsessed with the potential bursting in each grain


the mirage,
the mighty mirage
i drown as i feel the desert fill my lungs


as each throbbing beat ripples through my carcass,
i am reminded of being alive
i am released from my hypnosis,
left drunk on remorse


i had abandoned you, my dear
for i am only sober in my solitude


and before death finally takes my hand,
i will swim in the amber pool of regret



























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the storm begins
and the sky  undresses


the  night turns its skin dark velvet
stark and severe


it’s anatomy is revealed in a violet haze
a haze that unveils its veins of lightning
a haze framing rips of brilliant ivory
each vein weaves amidst the mist of clouds,
clouds that bleed raindrops,
raindrops for the soil to suckle on


ascent and descent are one motion


the burgundy petals bloom


even the accidental witness is left aching in awe


all hearts soften,
all the sinners become able to repent



























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smoke wisps around each corner
glass impales the clouds;
a floss bedding for sharp shards


so piercing
matching your gaze


tell me,
how many broken promises do your eyes commit



























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the ink has soaked the page
it is onyx,
jetted


your fate was scribed in cellulose,
fashioned in stone


your hands are tied
the hourglass will strip you of your agency
do not protest


this austerity is not for you to question
who are you to question?


are you not merely an animal?
obedience is better for you


so bow down

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