Indigo Hawkins Poems

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21.
From A Dream (Irksome Pantoum 1)

With a whiff of plums, I wake
covered by George Washington's fatigues;
submerged in cherry blossoms,
unwanted sex.
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22.
After Morning Mass (Irksome Pantoum 2)

Be a dear, would you,
and pass an old lady her gin.

I'm tired of men, of old age and sin…
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23.
Last Night

I dreamt of standing
on a balcony, watching
myself jump, and then...
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24.
Resolve

Tiger lilies squat—
garish, blazingly unbound…
wishes, a heavy
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25.
Contact

Shrink, kindness. The energy changes.
I'm sweating. I never sweat. Meek lovers
avert eyes, turn heads into shoulders.
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26.
Outpouring

Many horses: propulsive river embanked
by languid anguish. Trust it, erosion—
forceful meshing of mud and medicine.
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27.
Anticipating Sunrise

28.
Yeah

Hold on a tick, while I lick
my fingers, mother. No need for your voice
to carry—or let it whirl if you will. Let it be
shrill; stick a needle in a cloud
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29.
Body Of Thought

Look at how I squander you on the periphery of ideal—
advocating philosophies I’ve forgotten how to feel.

Once a sage said to me, “We sing about what we need most—
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30.
Refracted

Not quite comfortable with cartilage
or kink, she kidded with shadows and blanked
into air, blinked as the sunlight sheared off
all her hair. Whose body is this, whose bed?
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