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The sweat rolls off his skin
Like beads off an assembly line.
His body, a

As you slide your hand
Under my shirt sleeve
And up my arm,
A layer of skin is also taken

cradling
cradling
my ebb-tide

I think that when I met you
I met my future body
I felt experienced flesh
Hair as long and red as

Walking towards me with such ease and grace
Hair perfectly set
Makeup done to perfection
Handbag

My love is not earned,
nor deserved,
nor acquired.
My love is stolen
and abused
and not

“I listen to my words but they fall far below,
I let my music take me where my heart wants to

Foundations

Do not fear rock bottom
we build strong foundations
when we know who we are.
If we

The Moon's Tides

She is moonlight
a silvery crescent
in a harvest moon

If she asked
for

it was my body
afloat in an inky sea
dreamily communing with stars

it was my body
that warmed

My reasonable man,

I look through my caged body,

As you wipe away with disgust,

These

Curled up like a dried out leaf,
The wind may break my back.
My skin crumbles to the touch.

My