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  Vermont Loving

  

  By ten_cent_lemonheads, Marshfield, VT

  Though I am only seventeen years old and my family has not lived here for generations upon generations, I consider myself a well-worn Vermonter. I was born in the middle of an early November snowstorm. Though I was a newborn, I was already getting acquainted with a place where the weather is volatil...
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  Endless Passing Days

  

  By ten_cent_lemonheads, Marshfield, VT

  Time used to be marked By kisses and inside jokes But now time is marked By how long it takes the toothpaste tube to run out Or whether it’s time to do the laundry again. I used to count passing days By how long it had been since I’d seen you And how long it would be til I saw you again....
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  To Smile At Strangers

  

  By ten_cent_lemonheads, Marshfield, VT

  It was a languid sunny day in early September—Vermont’s mountains were on fire in all their seasonal autumn glory—and I was sitting on the metal bench at a bus stop in Burlington, plugged into my headphones and a romance novel. An old man approached me and I looked up as he asked whether this ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Wrinkled Memories

  

  By ten_cent_lemonheads, Marshfield, VT

  Did you ever see it? he asked. And I had to remind him that it was he who had brought me there, That we'd thrown the instruments in the back of someone's little black truck – Arrived, bumping precariously, up a dusty dirt driveway. But he laughed, and told me with naive sincerity And po...
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  Nostalgia

  

  By ten_cent_lemonheads, Marshfield, VT

  We got ourselves lost in a mushroom cloud haze behind the elementary school playground. Surrendered to fantasies and daydreams that our minds had already begun to forget when we left behind the wood chipped ground underneath the yellow plastic slide. Held together by artificial imagination...