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Best Poems Written by Delaney Anderson

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There Is Mercury, Or Maybe Bowie, Jagger Or One of the Others

You dream as you turn the pages of lasagna and the thin voices of your parents behind the wall 
That man is there, the fluff, the sequins of his overcoat 
A strange angle to challenge your religion, you can’t really see the eyes from this flash  

As a child you stared, and now you stare again.

 It strikes seven chords from within your bones. A medley; the body has never heard before-
And the muscles, the nerves, the fibers, and the tissue all vibrate to make vague sort of new virgin space. 

Aaagh, all of a sudden, and your grandmother touches you gently, a brush on the shoulder to ask you are you alright? Because your flesh is dripping. 

And you know why, because its all, 
Bit of your soul is broken off 
And ‘that’s why the caged bird sings’ now 
And all. 

You’re a ripple in the daylight now. 
So try, 
And try, 
And try, 
And try.

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Dying Again

Big fortitude 
Big fortitude 
Big fortitude 
And the people around me, 
The people around me, 
The people around me again

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A Wife

A WIFE 

Someone buried my rights on previously set soil 

And I woke up with the glass between my teeth 

What are you staring at, he wondered surreptitiously 

And waved his hand, slowly, before my eyes 

Before I bit them off, one by one 

And the blood ran down, infecting the air with the dog beneath and behind 

I’ll put on the red dress, I said 

If you watch me do it.

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Those Summer Nights

You know, I think Norah Jones
might sit on my shoulder sometimes.
The lady with the simplest songs, whispers genie melodies.
and she tunes decisions-                                                                   
my childhood. 
And these seven year summer nights are different 
when I know she is there
keeping a soft beat to existence in summer.

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Female

I don’t know how many times I have to tell you—

My womanhood isn’t going to wear out. 

Because if it could—

You would have worn it out already.

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Ordinary Fear

Is he a stupidhead? 
The eye in the peacock feather, 
Such life changing art 

People will lean 
On the backs of chairs, 
To watch him work 

And the stripes in his hat 
Promise nothing 
Except what they really want in their dreams 

And the swish swish swish 
Of his big black pen 
Is placed like a baby in his arms 

When the wheels wheel away 
They are left in their heads 
Turn around, drink up some wine 

And the clock will tell you 
As you’re eating your food 
That this part of us cannot go to sleep

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Remembering

It looks like today I am crawling back into the hole in my soul 
And peering at the world from the inside

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Sweet

I don’t feel like myself, I feel like a cherry instead. 
And there might be nuts in my hair. 
But every time that I try 
There is nobody here to eat me up.

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Youth

The plaque is getting thicker, we are forgetting to brush 
Other people talk about how yellow looks good on us.

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Why Not

darling why can you not see
there is so much more of me
that deserves more than hello 
                                          or goodbye?