Bloom

By holybucketsofjoy

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tales of a resurrected phoenix & hymns to Mother Nature ❁ ❝her lips are tectonic plates--when they clash... More

« LIBRO UNO »
dedication
contents
✿ g e n e s i s
how the clouds formed
overcoming writers' block
literary catheters
divine dandruff
infinite cosmos
✿ b l o o m
cicadas come of age
concrete jungle
riot time reverie
the dwelling place
when you feel unloved
beauty in chaos
glory! glory!
mother sun
removing stingers from buzzing memories
✿ m u s i n g s
contents of the mind
the smoker
what is normal?
as if he won't remember
when my eyes are closed
silver tongues are gold
misplaced luck
combing for clovers
✿ g l o a m i n g
cacophonous cradlesong
insomniac mirage
let me in
star (siren of the night)
the longest knives
talons
corpus flori
too shallow
rest for the weary
hydrogen bond
fiat lux
kidney stones
sad girls
happiness will come
✿ s u r v i v e
cash or credit
affidavits of a rape victim
only yes means yes
dear rapist
dear victim-survivor
[san] andreas
rise of the rape survivor
mobilized for mutiny
more than your trauma
a promising prophecy
✿ f l o u r i s h
a love like ivy
the healer
mitochondrial lover
absent adoration (starved hearts)
me to me
✿ author's note
✿ hotlines ✆
« LIBRO DOS »
i • phantasmagorical
ii • chimerical
iii • quixotic
iv • euphoria
v • noose (tempestuous)
vi • honeyed lust (libation)
vii • ephemeral
viii • evanescent
ix • pangloss
x • petrichor
xi • pulchritudinous
xii • eventide prophecy (pellucid)
xiii • misanthrope
xiv • hamartia
xv • lassitude
xvi • gloaming
xvii • noose pt. 2 (beguile)
xviii • bijoux
xix • consecration (concupiscence)
xx • ensorcell
{author's note}
xxii • detox (malignant)
xxiii • indelible
xxiv • caresses (horripilation)
xxv • sole purpose (dalliance)
xxvi • redamancy
xxvii • wildfire (Pyrrhic victory)
xxxii • liberosis
xxviii• B&N thoughts (vellichor)
xxix • body positive (callipygian)
{author's note}
xxx • bombinate
xxxi • cracked earth (cacoethes)
xxxii • erubescent
xxxviii • precious rarity (hiraeth)
xxxix • birch tree (blatherskite)
{interlude}
xl • carbon + steel (concinnity)
xli • unfortunately (nacarat)
xlii • rubiginous
xliii • incarnadine
xliv • nocturnal anxiety (dysania)
xlv • seductress (prepossessing)
xlvi • sweet dreams (madeleine)
xlvii • bang! (sesquipedalian)
xlviii • banishing demons (opia)
{interlude - tw}
xlix • shapeshifter (cozenage)
l • colonizer's shovel (pantoum)
li • the marxist huntress
lii • cosmic erotica
liii • uncouth
liv • goddess reign
lv • velveteen duplicity
lvi • schrödinger's cat (eunoia)
lvii • taming "unruly" hair
lviii • neverland on the brain
lix • inamorato (poetaster)
lx • mydriasis
lxi • mi amor & muse
lxii • eternal midnight
lxiii • sweet nothings
lxiv • blue curaçao
lxv • an Egyptian lynx with sienna sundials
lxvi • nymphaea blossoms
lxvii • re: no place
lxviii • milkweed
lxix • dissociation
« LIBRO TRES »
◰ polaroid n°1
◳ polaroid n°2
◲ polaroid n°3
◱ polaroid n°4
◰ polaroid n°5
« LIBRO CUATRO »
lxx • scarlet corduroys in Santorini

xxi • my galaxy (chondrite)

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By holybucketsofjoy

chon•drite  ("kon-drahyt")

(n.)

meteorite




my galaxy


i love you as much as

the moon loves the tides;

you bring more light to my life

than every star and chondrite

combined.

the next we embrace,

i may never let go,

relinquishing myself

to your gravity's pull.

i'll bring you to my lips

like a glass of vitality;

for you see, you're equal parts

water and oxygen–

the lifebloods of my soul.

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