Best Safekeeping Poems

In a leaky aquarium of air 
you call out all the gods!	
You fight and gulp the sky.
Fists and knuckles 
scrape heaven, bruise blue,
scare red yellow enough 
to break into a
gallop in your new 
Italian shoes …
Hurts all of our
wildflowers— shatters 
plans and plots—
Strewn broken pieces...

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reflections of my marrow seep 
into the mourning woe brings-
i fear lapses in judgement,
yet know the outcome will be
revealed in my disregard for my
immortality

an ivory skull pricks like an 
intravenous needle-
crimson veins no longer exist,
just bone turning to the ash
only regret comprehends

paradigm of raven hair...

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If something’s stored to keep it safe
And then you must retrieve it,
You’d better hope that you remember
Where you chose to leave it.

For oftentimes, the hiding place
You took so long to find
May somehow, ‘cause of age and time,
Have vanished from your mind.

And then you tear your...

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