Tag: romanticizing
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You, but in another Dimension
Last night I dreamt of you. But this didn’t feel like you. The version of you that wore tan denim, a circle crease in your back pocketfrom years of carrying tobacco. Pale skin fading, blue eyes dissolving. This version of you didn’t have aform. Bones were just sticks that fell from trees, tendons weren’t intimatelyknown,…
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Rust
I slap purple lotion all over my freshly shaven legs, my pores smelling like spilt wine. “Be there in ten.” Dash texts. He is the “cool guy” at school, the moody senior who jumps over flaming fire pits, his rubber soles in a constant state of melting, drinks whiskey from its neck and drives a…
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Seasick
I pluck him from the Atlantic. I find him drifting in a metal trap, his legs scattering back and forth. He wants a taste of air, I want someone who wears a shell. He is my Maryland blue crab. … Five years later, he is drying up. I can see his gills expanding, aching for…
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Lobster
“Let’s go to Maine.” He said through a text from across the country. We had broken up over a year ago, yet the text lingered in my mind. My thumb hesitated over my phones keyboard, holding onto a response. I pictured the two of us in a creaking house on the coast of Maine. The…
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