Tagged: waist

when you are asleep,

when you are asleep,
the seconds rise and fall beneath
an arm around your

waist. you are the waves, pulling
me towards morning’s shores
.
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your waist

an arm around a

an arm around a
lover’s waist can read
many things –
a stanza steeped
in equal parts
love and
loneliness,
an absent
horizon waiting
to be sparked,
a compendium of
partialities
wrapped
in our history,
a ship of words
drifting between
fiction and truth
.
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the waist can be

the waist can be
a thing of beauty
to hang a
discovery, lay
a wager, wheeled
slowly around
and around,
mesmerizing
beneath
the potter’s
steady hands
.
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i have special

i have special
powers that
have everything
and nothing
to do with how
you see me in the
dark
– a window,
a gate, an indecisive
waistline, a history
of heartbreak
.
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