Best Thickened Poems

She bathes--
in the nighttime

in dream thickened honey.

Her mandolin cries
wrapping her chilled 
chords around the moon.

Hear the clocks ticking,
hands 
weightless on the surface,
as butterflies float away
to yesterday.

No effort required,
they sail on such 
sweet notes
that fall with the mellow 
mandolin rain....

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a meal found afloat
high in the water
tasted nasty
tasted super salty
he tightened up into
a huge ball and gave his best spit
but it went back over his head
and the jellyfish said
to a coral one day
this sea is getting thicker
saltier
I think it is drying up
 going away
we must...

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Thickened and scarred, my mask bears the burden of time,
Torn, stained, this tough shell silently unravels,
And yet, somehow, it continues to keep me alive, to protect me from the world,
It was never a shining armor, just my mask,
Trying to compensate for all that I could...

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