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April 30: Burnt Paper Flowers

False dolls play pretend

a silent scream ing hatefulness

dark and bleak and haunted

sour words bitter in my mouth

unpleasant, untouched

I hoped for bright fire

fire burned the paper book

tear the page to piece s

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 17-18, 281-284, 295-296, 337

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April 29: Inventory

three years

pieces of time

with unexpected secret

two hands

striving to hold on to

shattered security

one mouth

that won’t close

forbidden communication

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 79

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April 28: miranda

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 44-45

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April 27: to take away the lonliness

(Special shout-out to my amazing wife for choosing the page and the word “naked” for today’s poem)

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 309

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April 26: Lover’s Lament

Dear Shakespeare

poets like you do anything

and everything

for tricks and treats and fairy tales

forgive me, I’m not myself

the music drifting in my heavy heart

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 195-215

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April 25: At Least

When I was younger

he was older - a man

me a girl

he locked the door

wanting to see my

breast

beneath my sweater

I was scared

so I did

later

on the bed

he thrust against me

clothes on

I feel sick

and guilty

and ashamed

but at least

he didn’t rape me

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 215-338

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April 24: Broken Seconds

I

look

into

time

leave

, you

told

me,

the

slices

so

dark

—so

cruel

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 316.

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April 23: Once in a Lifetime

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 194

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April 22: solitary

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 48

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April 21: A Quiet Symphony

my heart tempted

sinful lovers

in Morse Code —

we drummed out

beautiful music

human and

loving to be touched

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 339

#flowers in the attic #the poeming #napowrimo #spilled ink #erasure poetry #found poetry #poemsintheattic #thepoeming

April 20: First

Intimate,

secret -

I’d never seen a naked woman

so

incredible...

bodies

twisted,

a rippling sensation.

I came:

queer teen-age sex

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 222

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April 19: Haunted

I was a broken windowpane

in your shadowbox house

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 27.

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April 18: addiction

I was fascinated

to see the bleeding

cutting skin

to make a permanent scar;

I want to die

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 304

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April 17: Us

a love too beautiful :: I pity the stars

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 41

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April 16: predator

He thought me easily a victim

wants a pretty little thing like the taste of powdered-sugar

he doesn’t know that I am

arsenic

bitter poison

marvelous and horrible

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 375-376

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April 15: watercolor

God-like,

we made

watercolor scenes

for the kind of lives we’d live;

the world

my future

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 143

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April 14: where the sun hides

fresh air and sunshine

don’t sound

like us no more

we heard the wind

whispered of death and dying

Shadows were under

hands of death

That’s the way it is

where the sun hides

Andrews, V.C., Flowers in the Attic, New York: Gallery Books, 1979. Print. Pg 161-164

#flowers in the attic #the poeming #napowrimo #spilled ink #erasure poetry #found poetry #poemsintheattic #thepoeming #centos #first one to cross multiple pages

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