Tagged: exchange

the shortcut requires

dad and his ruby-

dad and his ruby-
throated hummingbirds have an
age-old exchange – quid

pro quo – the language of love,
the language for survival
.
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we ask the world of

how equitable

you arrived in new

you arrived in new
york city from somewhere warm,
argentina, asked

us to take you to bubble
tea – we left footprints in the snow
.
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when one allium

when one allium
head bumps into another
allium head, what

mysteries do they exchange
in that quiver of purple haze
.
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at the end of the

at the end of the
day, i might come over for
coffee, you’ll knock on
the door for
a hammer, we will
exchange all
of the familiar
things without
touching the places
that are sore
.
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we will memorize

we will memorize
one another’s histories
all wrong, not because

we haven’t tried, but because
we may have tried much too hard
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: histories

back when we used to

back when we used to
exchange letters, everything
was more – like meeting

in grand central this november,
recalling the length of your hair
.
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let’s be up to our

let’s be up to our
eyeballs in denial, free is
never quite free, once

you’ve strapped in for the ride, exchanged
parts of you that make up the whole
.
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