(1.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
my brakes only work on the passenger side
but I haven’t had a passenger in ages
only hitchhikers going backwards<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the right faces in false memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(2.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I burn shed skin flakes
to whisper smoke signals
of suicide notes burned before reading
into the nude coral dusk<\/p>\n\n\n\n
it was another false alarm on my part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(3.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
chewing the nails I forgot I polished so I would stop chewing them
glitter shrapnel imbedded between my teeth
you called them constellations of anxiety
in a yellow graveyard,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
what a cruel thing to call a smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(4.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I mistook my heart
for a wasp in amber
and made its last words
before going under
a stone’s throw
meant to shatter you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(5.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
no shore remembers
being born of glass
only the tide
that beat them into dust<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brooke calls hers: Mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(6.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My hands fold words into paper birds
yours fold lovers into gardens of scorpion grass<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a promise unkept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(7.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
for a second,
when undressing your painted body
the world stopped breathing in color<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and all of autumn was us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(8.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You called the moon in daylight a gravestone<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but it’s more like an unlit porchlight
that cannot picture our silhouettes
outside the depths of nightfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(9.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
midnight was never a bridge
just the turning of the hourglass
another funnel to fit through<\/p>\n\n\n\n
another fall to the bottom of a bottle,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
they never spun it toward me,
so kiss me in the closet
until I’m small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(10.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
polaroids of us naked
may fade to gray<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to us,
they will remain
blossoms of dusk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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