Lauren Michaels Poems

When she woke up in the morning Bobby was gone
and the next time she saw him he failed to acknowledge her.
When I looked up last night
I confused a neon light for the moon.
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If you won't write then I can't breathe.

I calm myself I know you do
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Five particularly stormy days.
As though to welcome me home.
Abandon calm
If you want to have hope
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Oh goodness.
Gracious
Me.
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Days succumb so easily
To the heavy, nullifying trawl.
Of hours. Of time
Viscous and slow.
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His kiss,
When its given,
isn't gracious. Isn't careful.
His fist curls a tangle in my hair,
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I think I might be moving
Swaying rapidly
Back and forth
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My jaw has been aching all day
With their slow deliberate ascent.
They mark me, my dissolute way.
Make felt their knowing dissent.
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Its so obvious
When my mothers been crying
Her eyes (always small)
get smaller. The tired skin around them
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Well someone came back,
And pity him
Like he could hear my thoughts
He took my hand and he pulled me away.
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