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apparitional,  fictional,
spectral,  figmental,
delusive,  illusive,
abstract,  unreal,
imagined, un-bodied.

You, on your steady subtractive diet,
crossing your ankles in a subway car,
you can write beneath the footbridge,
"I was never here, "
but it will never be true. So be whole.

I Am Not Your Tender Flower

I am a weed.

I did not ask your permission.

If you withhold the water,

I will wait for rain.

Do not walk barefoot

across my arid earth.

30/30: The Things You Thought You Needed

Those golden slippers will not fit you

after your feet callus from  gravel.

Your amulet to save you from witches

was hasty; it nips at your dreams

like papercuts, now that you’ve

started hoarding white sage, eyebright,

and rosemary. And all the men

on white horses that pass through this town

are looking for women sleepier than you,

who prefer their kisses stolen, not given,

who wake only to promises less pedestrian

than a dog’s warm lick and the thought

of sausages on a cast-iron pan.

Women, Stop Apologizing So Much

My boyfriend told me

I apologize too much

I said, I’m sorry