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• Poetry > Haiku
  Sweet Love

  

  By VegHead, Como, TX

  Sweet love, it stings so Paper cuts, pink lemonade I won't let you go...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Under My Skin

  

  By VegHead, Como, TX

  Words, ideas splinter they fester under my skin. poems are tweezers....
• Poetry > Haiku
  Nosedive

  

  By VegHead, Como, TX

  To dive in the sea, Breathe water like I breathe air Girl kamikaze...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Deflation

  

  By VegHead, Como, TX

  Frayed telephone cables tether two hearts dripping their longings. All my broken pieces suspend, shards of glass inside of gelatin. Goodbye is snapping a rubber band. My pieces rush down and shatter again....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Marble Garden

  

  By VegHead, Como, TX

  I recall the day, May, or June-- The day that ended much too soon. Creaking garden gate, white-wash, We hid among pungent tomato vines and cherubs, cement, frozen; Ashen-cheeked. I remember the rising smell of honeysuckle in the Spring heat; Hands honeycomb-sticky, lips reciprocally sweet. ...
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  War in a Pocket

  

  By VegHead, Como, TX

  Yesterday, It was cold. for the first time since last Winter. I put on my jacket, my best heavy coat. slipped my hands into the pockets, felt wads of tissue. Stiff with salt. I cried when I had to leave, stuffed my pockets with sponges for sorrow. kept some dry ones in the sleeve. ...