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• Poem for the year’s close (On being closeted) - "my dreams are as ravenous as wintertime."
• Prayer scratched into the side of a blue light emergency phone station - "i want a dissolving so quiet even the rainbow cannot feel it."
• Half-Angel Jazz - "There are always angels around us"

• Mad Girl's Love Song - "(I think I made you up inside my head.)"
• Lady Lazarus - "Herr God, Herr Lucifer / Beware / Beware."
• Morning Song - "I wake to listen: far sea moves in my ear."

• Dedications to Beatrice - "For Beatrice - Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down."
• Letters to Beatrice - I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip from slim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory [...] I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. [...] Life will never end when you are in it."

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1 - you've always been more of a dog person, by t. das;

"I place the carcass of a bird at your feet. I love you, but not in a way you understand."

this poem comes to me in the middle of the night, and often prompts me to rewatch that one scene from wes anderson's 'isle of dogs'. i too cannot cope well with change, i too cannot imagine being left without my love. i too express my affection in a weird, often incomprehensible way.


2 - A Bookmark Near the End - Julia Nicole Camp;

" I, however, find love to be quite simple. Love is the stack of biographies on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end."

giving your time and energy and self to learn more and more about a loved one to better engage with them. i imagine this poet after seperate with their boyfriend, and seeing how their versions of love are contradictory.


1 - Two-Headed Calf, by Laura Gilpin;

"And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual."

when i'm old enough to get tattoos without religious fear-mongering plaguing my every move, i will be getting the small calf tattooed on my skin to feel the ink sink into my veins.


2 - The Orange, by Wendy Cope;

"I love you. I'm glad I exist."

ever since i read this poem at the ripe old age of 15 and a half, i have put an amount of intentionality into how i peel oranges for others previously not applied (on a cognitive scale - i have always loved peeling oranges and it is a high effort activity). i want each slice to say "i love you, i want you to feel the happiness in the citrus, and with the dripping juice".


I only mis-gender myself when Fleetwood Mac comes on, by Lyd Havens;

"I still identify / as a spiteful bitch."

i am a man, but a part of me will always be that girl who painted her nails in class. she served so much cunt.


1 - GOD IS AN AMERICAN, by Terrance Hayes;

"I am in love with incompletion."

beauty aching like an open book is a description that makes me want to perform a body swap so i can see how hayes lives to make something like this.


2 - The poet refuses to see what can be plainly seen, by Clementine Von Radics;

"This morning I woke up so in love with you I didn't know what to do with my body"

this is how i've woken up, every morning, for everyday that i have been with my girlfriend, and all the prior days that my yearning was hidden. i love her so much. my thoughts orbit her like how the moon rotates our earth, she is the wind beneath my wings.

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