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Willow tree

I used to imagine stepping off the shingles of my childhood home
Thought it might be poetic
To end it
Where it started

While perched there
Peaking over 
Waiting for the wind to catch me right 
I caught a glimpse of my old willow tree
My dad had planted it for me 
I watched it grow 
So slow
Still small now 
Has so much left to go 

I used to dream of climbing it one day
When it was big 
And strong 
And bright 
I think one day I still might 

Maybe life’s worth more
than my brains on the pavement 
Maybe my life’s worth more

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My first car

My first car is starting to smell old
Like my grandparents house that they no longer live in
Reminds me of an antique store
With trinkets and wooden and things I’ve never seen
It smells of a jacket
In the back of the closet 
That no longer fits

My first car took me anywhere
When anywhere seemed like so much
It took me to games and stores and houses and places I shouldn’t have been
But it always got me out
My subtle savior I never remembered to thank

My first car was old a decade ago
It was rusted and I never heard the end of the jokes
But it was mine.
Mine in a way a lot of things never have been
Mine like a name
Like a part of myself
 Of my past
Of my shame

My first car doesn’t run
It doesn’t putter and shutter like it used to
And I can’t curse it anymore
When it doesn’t turn on
It died before I could say goodbye
When I thought we had more time
Seems like an old friend maybe
That just won’t text back
Seems like a dumb silly promise
Like maybe it will whine at me again
If I turn the key
But it doesn’t
And it won’t

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Part of it all

She’d reach out the window 
Like she wanted to be 
part of it all
Wanted to see
The green and the rays made of gold
wishing her bones might sink into the earth
While her mind could wonder through its roots
And it was beautiful 
The heaviness she held
For all the things which couldn’t speak

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Town

This town is old and cold and sick and sad
It’s every dark lit street 
you’d never walk down willingly
It’s every gas pump in the rain
With drain pipes working slowly
It’s every face that sags in knowing
They will always be this way
It’s every promise made to no one 
Of a better life some day
It’s every desperate raffle, every bet, every gamble, every trade
And It’s wishing on a star to take it far far away

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Slipping slowly

I don’t know when I first felt my childhood slipping slowly
It was somewhere in the dark
Maybe on a slushy snowy night that made me cry
I’m tired of saying goodbye
     -
He agreed

It might have been some other day
When my paintings taunted me alone
Or when I first realized I’d one day be all on my own
With nothing but my colors and a world that didn’t want me 
They don’t care about you 
     -
I agreed 

It could have been much sooner though
When the bus drove far away 
And I didn’t know why
When my lukewarm bath provided no solace
And my mother began to cry
I miss him
     - 
She agreed 

It was somewhere in the snow or paint or bus 
That took small pieces out of me 
and scattered them like dust
I’m not that little girl 
She’s gone and lost now
 floating in the wind
Off to places you’ve never been
in her now grows a new sort of being
One that’s strong and smart and bold
She believes in the all alone
And will make the world one day want her
You can do it
     -
I seem to agree

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Our secret place

Dark and dusty 
Washed away now by the rain
I hope nobody sees
I hope nobody knows
We’re secret here
We’re safe all from the bad
Tranquil twisting burns the sad 
You close your eyes
I look up to the sky
Cloudy in a clear now sort of way
What is it you used to say?
It made me laugh in secret
Made me smile in a subtle way
So no one knows
So they can’t say

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The to never be again

A second not so far away
Just a moment 
nothing more
I remember it still
I feel it in my bones and when I lie awake
And yet
I cannot see it
The to never be again
The to never be on swing sets and in trees
In ignorance and simple
In timeless and sublime
Gone and lost and floating in the wind
Lightly heavy in some way I may not understand 
The to never be with dolls and braids and pink and small
The to never be again but for a moment now and then is all

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The bad

I let him touch me.
I didn’t know him much
It was the first time I had ever felt that kind of touch
And it still haunts me now
Though I never thought it would
I don’t blame the wandering hands
I don’t think I ever could
For, someone hurt him too
They touched him with the bad
And it shrunk and shriveled before finding me sad
The bad which reaches out and crawls and spreads
A black mold in humid dread
It made me hurt some other soul
Who never asked for much
It made me want to take and take and touch 
bask in the regret
Then spend the rest of my life 
Running to forget