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Teen Ink Magazine, January 2003 : Poetry Articles

A Forever Choice We always search the missing, Whenplenty is in store. We always seek the broken, When we see that there ismore Than openness and emptiness ... Continue...	Blued Me Down and In angel came southwest to play the tail end of the summer tune Jazzed me upand out. flurries of melodic emotion, Gillespian thoughts. crazy love. but now she's headed back tothe East Coast Blued me down and in. Mood Indigo. ... Continue...
Clandestine Scribbling She writes poetry In thick, sliding ink On the bottoms of Herfeet. All day, ... Continue...	Color Me Perfect warmfeet scrunched together in the comfort of static cling snoring purringcalling running falling I smooth each nightmare ... Continue...
Cornerstone Tucked away in the scrubbywoods of the Arkansas delta, sits a cemetery. Forgotten since1932, ... Continue...	Feather Her life fluttered by like a white feather. Weaving an aimless path, pushedonly by the wind. First catching a gust and being thrust into the sky, ... Continue...
Insomnia I lie awake, kept so by thecreaking silence and the muffled yearnings that hammer against mybrain. A rush of ... Continue...	Kisses Shefeeds me fresh-baked smiles With swooping fingertips I bite down.Yellow cake with white and pink frosting Squeezes between my lips. ... Continue...
On Growing Up Snorkelingin shallow water, Knees scrape defiant coral When I forget to swim. Tinyfish dart like clattering spoons Falling from unpracticedhands. ... Continue...	Strawberries Warm withspots black pebblesscattered in non-typical places for us to set ourbleached teethinto deepbelow the skin ... Continue...
Take Flight I coughed at the espresso beansflying at the ceiling It burned their wings frozen They fell to myhead level, 5'3" ... Continue...	Tear Drop Bythe swimming pool of sadness drifted the culprit the littlesplinter of sorrow induced by cruelty thatgradually dissolved into nothing in the tainted water Continue...
The Battered War The valley poets arephilosophizing As the street cars devour the gleam Your evangelist pointsand says "Judas!" But in our child eyes we're a team On thebalcony the lantern burns ... Continue...	The Clock Whenthe batteries are long ago dead, And it is sprinkled with dust, The wood isall cracks, And the metal corroded to rust. When the hands have stopped inmotion, ... Continue...
The Languor of This Day The lang-uuuuoor of this day islike Fever ten times bigger than me like an anchor, sinking me instone. ... Continue...	The Last Strawberry it's not about money most of all, it's not about money for what's left when theroses wilt and the chocolate's gone and those rainbow toe socks from lastNew Year's ... Continue...
Unfaithful Iam muttered and blurred. Smeared like ink across paper. Filling inblanks. Left by someone unsure. You lost yourself in me, ... Continue...	untitled A faded shirt found at the bottom of a pile of dirty old clothes fit fordirty old men. Worn gray-blue with its backward pastel rainbowstripe ... Continue...

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