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Blue Aster Blues




Blue Aster Blues

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i can't help my chest burn
from the sound of her voice.
bubbled cotton candy swirls
melt over your tongue
in hushed baby pink.
her name on your mouth
must taste of honey;
did you forget how my name
felt the same way, honey?


undulating bee
on sunshine yellow petals,
jacket of gold-
dusted pollen over back.


with barbed wire i decorate
her mistakes and her flaws,
then critique her imperfections
to my perennial friends
with the same mouth i employ
to preach sisterhood.
aster, goldenrod.
i swallow the soap
meant to cleanse my mouth.


a bellowing storm brews within my blue,
in knowing you feel for her
the same way i feel for you.
bathe in amber honey at summer's end.
my saccharine skies of fall
don't gleam as her spectrums in july.


it isn't the wind
that makes me quiver;
it's the flutter of your veined glass wings.




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