JAE JAE Poems

any other time I’m
spinning longside forward,
wishing hard times would bend toward better ones ahead; flying
fast to the veiled end or
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twisted like a ribbon, my mind
assessing my living
space
and tumbling into faces, lit red in the sun—reflections
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Gleaming pearls of a premeditated version of the past
tumble forth,
forgetting the ears that hear the taint of truth beneath
the shine,
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i thought i’d seen it all before;
there is a moment when i’m
slipping and you’re kissing
the part between my hair, sore
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She wakes to hear his whining in the early morning,
calling like fallen angels to gods, they
break from a sleep I couldn’t know, where
lights twinkle off and become flickers, flinching in pale
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The ghost, five foot eleven, draped in
olive and khaki creases,
eyes bloodshot and yellowing,
but his face alive with a
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I don’t know
what the last days felt like,
how many plates of chicken spaghetti
you had to turn down;
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The easy glide of toes along
the soft, flaked bottoms of my feet,
a vacation from the smell of cleaning fluid
and people who talk to colleagues
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You will be walking down the
Concrete steps, crumbling over a hill,
Matching each remnant,
Each rock and pebble
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most people keep their bones on the inside,
twisted up tightly
like the decaying, corked wine
we let sit on the counter for months.
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