Tagged: skin
peeking through cypress,
peeking through cypress,
another southern morning
sun, warming our skin
.
20240421:1117
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meeting a melon
meeting a melon
for the first time is
a tricky
affair – no amount
of knocking,
feeling the weight
in the palm of your
hand, looking for
skin discoloration or
telling scars will
help you unlock
its sweet secrets
.
20211127:2050
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it’s likely we enjoy
it’s likely we enjoy
small obsessions
as evolved humans,
like that time
we turned slightly
orange during our
carrot binge
.
20190918:0759
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: evolved
i am delicately
i am delicately
peeling into
this memory i have
of you – how we
rarely had
lychees
in our youth
unless
you were visiting –
maybe you’d carry
with you only
a small bag of
the sweet fruits,
and still, it was
up to us
to peel away
the tough outer
layer, past the inner
membrane,
to get to
the unforgettable
part, the stuff
of memories
.
20171122:2005
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please play some music
please play some music
to cover up the smashing
sound as i crush cloves
of garlic between knife and
cutting board, like winged insects
.
20171026:0840
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when the heart breaks,
when the heart breaks,
the body, unbeknownst
to the host,
disconnects, one, two,
maybe several
organs at a time. it
is how on day seven,
the outer shell awakes
first and recognizes
pain along the circuitry,
the stomach reacts,
two-thirds liver-less,
the spinal cord lets
go a bouquet of
nerves, and the
tongue is speechless,
numb to the touch
.
20161115:0632
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summer’s golden hour,
summer’s golden hour,
shadows lengthen, skins glisten,
time pinched between time
.
20160723:1932
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it is known, or
it is known, or
rather felt, that
memories get
shifted around
in the body, from
eyes, to liver,
to heart, to
fingers, to
skin, to feet.
how else can
we explain
the heaviness
from walking
away, walking
off, walking
to make sense
of it all, to
stop the rest
of the body
from feeling
.
20160711:2052
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our skin is wired
in the memory
in the memory
bank, scarring
requires a good
dose of new
memories
fragmented for
fibers to even
imagine mending
the damage –
there’s no
anesthesia for
the procedure
.
20151216:0754
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