Tagged: blanket

by week two, we are

by week two, we are
begging
for less excitement,
waiting
to be buried
under a
weighted blanket,
to drown
in a couple
more months of hot
chocolate
.
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eight-hundred-sixty-

eight-hundred-sixty-
six miles away from home is
not the same as eight-

thousand miles from home – we use
language as a warm blanket
.
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the barrier of

the barrier of
doubt is also a blanket,
a safety net, an

algebraic equation
that i cannot step away from
.
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i am waiting for

i am waiting for
you to say the word, so that
i can take you there –

underneath a rustling
canopy, a bamboo harvest
.
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in this part of the

in this part of the
country, the sun
unfurls a heated
wet blanket, an
oshibori of sorts,
as a gesture of
summer’s arrival.
there is, however,
little courtesy
involved, and
the only thing
that feels
wrung are our
withering bodies
.
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with January’s

with January’s
blanket stitch, storms gather to
knit a latticed quilt
.
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