“He left the next morning, searching for a city with light that reminded him of me. He would mail me empty envelopes and boxes, I would take them into my closet, shut the door, and quickly open them. A flash of foreign light would fill the room, but only for a moment. I would whisper ‘this is what we’re like, this is what we’re like.’…”
“He left the next morning, searching for a city with light that reminded him of me. He would mail me empty envelopes and boxes, I would take them into my closet, shut the door, and quickly open them. A flash of foreign light would fill the room, but only for a moment. I would whisper ‘this is what we’re like, this is what we’re like.’…”
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“Later when they would mention, they would say, and everyone would know, but not nearly as well as they meant.”
Mikl Paul, Dandelions That have Held your Breath“Nowhere hidden has ever turned away a goodheart guest.”
Mikl Paul, Dandelions That have Held your Breath“He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a summer. and He wanted to find it.”
Mikl Paul, Dandelions That have Held your Breath“He left the next morning, searching for a city with light that reminded him of me. He would mail me empty envelopes and boxes, I would take them into my closet, shut the door, and quickly open them. A flash of foreign light would fill the room, but only for a moment. I would whisper ‘this is what we’re like, this is what we’re like.’…”
Mikl Paul, Dandelions That have Held your Breath“She told me there was a place on my face she wanted to inhale.”
Mikl Paul, Dandelions That have Held your Breath“and you taste / of the memory of god abandoned.”
Mikl Paul, Dandelions That have Held your Breath“there are these places on your poem, / where I want to write bodies.”
Mikl Paul, Dandelions That have Held your Breath“I don't know if I have ever truly believed that everyone deserves love. But if I had to take it one moment further into those shadowed valleys of heartfull, I would admit that I do believe that love, deserves everyone.”
Mikl Paul, Dandelions That have Held your Breath“I want to gossip about forever / against the part of your back that / is mine.”
Mikl Paul, Dandelions That have Held your Breath“I negate this distance with / what it would be / to be shining you.”
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