Present-Day Poems – Page 6

Cartography of my own skin

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You may lay your silence across my shoulders like a shroud, may try […]

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I walked on, still delighted with the rude beauties of the scene— the […]

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The city lights stretch as sighs across the glass of penthouses— where […]

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I do not love you with sweetness— not with the hush of petals, […]

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In quiet lies the soul’s refrain,beyond the noise, beyond the name.The self dissolves […]

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The city wakes before we do— sirens in the distance, a cab splashing […]