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  Before You Leave

  

  By rrruthie, New Orleans, LA

  I. Light slips off your cheeks like soap. You are all bending limbs, folded elbows, knees. Silhouette grey, your smoke is slow and follows the telephone wires away. I am too long, gangley to fit comfortably anymore in this spot next to you, in mosquitoes and sluggish heat. II. Yo...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Boy

  

  By rrruthie, New Orleans, LA

  I hear the freedom in your voice, strong as the veins pushing blood through your body – you are explosive. I think, uncontainable but the sun tries to pack you into your body, bind you with light that tans your skin, tautens your flesh, but inside, you push back, beat at the walls of your bo...