Caroline Noonan Poems

I've watched you grow up through the years.
I loved it when you came to visit all those years ago;
pulling funny faces, stretching your face in all directions to
make a face even sillier than the last.
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GAZING

To find our forgotten humanity
We gazed not at the stars
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I was told from a young age that everyone should have sense
We should all have common sense at the very least
Which meant there were a few different types of sense. 
And the common one, the least of all of them which sounds so very ordinary to me seemed to be the most valuable. Everyone should have common sense I kept hearing. When I overheard the adults talk about someone who committed a horrifyingly stupid act, it was always followed by "they have no common sense"
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Letters to lovers:

Dear New York,
We have been in a relationship now for as long as my adult mind can remember.
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MY FROZEN BODY

I didn't know that I lay frozen
Alone and covered in ice
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Just when I was starting to think
We were e-m-ocean-ally dead
You sent me a reminder
Of where we came from
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