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  It's Pouring Buckets Outside

  

  By filmnoir, Alpharetta, GA

  slosh the rain whispers to me, groans and creaks from the weight of so many umbrellas and affairs. slosh the sink is rimmed with red, a faint, clinging desperation to it. foams of toothpaste speckled with old age, breakfast, and gag reflex. my fingers are heavy and wet, mucus waters my n...
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  Bloom

  

  By filmnoir, Alpharetta, GA

  Goosebumps, naked, clarity, out of focus, barely there, barely— breathing. There is the faintest contour The last traces of Faith. And I pray For the courage to press down. And I have, maybe, perhaps fallen in love with pain. I used to think I was strong But I'm really just to...
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  Sentimentals

  

  By filmnoir, Alpharetta, GA

  there is an old photo of me in those '96 days where i'm sleeping white flower in my hair a toy stroller and a dank, empty apartment with solid, musky carpet and my sister is next to me and she's sleeping with me and her mouth is open and my ma says she was just pretending to sleep. ...
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  Quilt

  

  By filmnoir, Alpharetta, GA

  creamy petals wilt ed when I was born. in the mercurial expanse of wint er, I learned what my first kiss was. girls with untamed imaginations and short eyelashes flutter ered with sugary hearts and lacy underwear. sentimentality, all tatter ed and patched together soothing the untrace...