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Moon in Taurus, Sun in Capricorn

I stand at the edge of the sidewalk where the grass meets concrete to see the way they turn from white to orange to pink to blue until I can only see the blinks of airplanes where the clouds used to be. I count the turtles in the pond. I remark at how my own…

In the Glass

It’s the deepest breath I’ve taken all day. There’s a glint in my eye as I register the slopes of your face. Even without my glasses bending light and refracting it, I would know your shape in a crowd of many people. I would know your laugh. It would carry me to any section of…

THE SECOND WITCH

I wish I was light every day. Broken wing, child’s play, the flutter like a flame against the bones that hold me up The pit grows without me, carving, and goading me. I gasp as my face meets the earth like the horns of a ram. I sink into microscopic shells. I eat the fruit…

First January

When I think about the spooky clown I think about my fear of wrinkles. The new ways I’m going to be perceived. I’m not like my mom, she laughs when I don’t think she will. I fuss over my own face over the sink into a toothpaste mirror and massage the lines between my eyebrows…

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I’m just a little guy trying to share what I wrote with anyone who is willing to listen to me for ten seconds. When I’m not working on my 1000 yard stare, I’m probably doing this.