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in pieces

August 16, 2017
By tessellations GOLD, Columbia, Maryland
tessellations GOLD, Columbia, Maryland
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she takes the hurt
reaches down
through her throat
to grasp the ends

 

pulls it out of her mouth
scarf-starving

 

she cries so hard her eyes
turn green but the seed

 

of sadness
is buried in


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in which graduation angst becomes a constant


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