my heart, a feverish pomegranate

she/her🫀🩸 the silent sky-blue woman at the edge of the swamp (chewing on words)

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “Here we are, aging together, just like we said we would”

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “My partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow”

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “Valentine, Nebraska: Cherry County”

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “Echo”

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “On having forgotten to recycle”

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “On Crescents & Waning”

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “Sand and Silt”

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I can’t quit you though time and time again you quit me.

Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "Los Desnudos: A Triptych"

[feral-ballad]

Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "Once Again I Prove the Theory of Relativity"

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Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "Once Again I Prove the Theory of Relativity"

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Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "I Am on My Way to Oklahoma to Bury the Man I Nearly Left My Husband For"

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Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "Small Madness"

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Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "With Lorenzo at the Center of the Universe, el Zócalo, Mexico City"

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Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "With Lorenzo at the Center of the Universe, el Zócalo, Mexico City"

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Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "Night Madness Poem"

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I want to know how love can grow irrevocable and prove the fable true. A love exists that gives. And won’t take back what’s given. Like the men.

Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "I Want to Be a Father Like the Men"

[feral-ballad]

Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "Bay Poem from Berkeley"