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Tag Archives: the complex heart
predation
i forgive myself for choosing to be a predator. for sharp teeth and an active imagination. for killing my meat, in an age when killing is a luxury, not a need. i forgive myself for raising birds to be slaughtered, … Continue reading
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Tagged cycles, farming, meat, rain of apples, the complex heart
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the brightness of the sky/ overwhelms my eyes
i am always turning away from you. seven years of arrival and departure without continuance at the center, the motion away built into the motion toward. brightest love of my life from whom i must turn, whose desires i could … Continue reading
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Tagged house by the river, love, polyamory, the complex heart
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avoidance
my hands are hardening as my heart softens. i try to hurry the process and things tear. blisters rise and sting. i bruise too easily, fall too fast. the massive cottonwoods humble and reduce me. i get small, laying on … Continue reading
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Tagged farming, house by the river, love, spiders, the complex heart
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needs
to say, you are meeting my needs is also to say, i have needs and today, you fill them. it is also to say, i need you. dangerous ground, the breakwater, the undertow land pulling out to sea. i need … Continue reading
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Tagged fear, house by the river, love, needs, polyamory, the complex heart
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