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bargaining with words you can't believe,
a plea, a prayer— there's so much our eyes can't see;
a billion little lines exist between us
and nothing,
and everything.
we are not lost in the darkness—
every quark sparks another,
invisible, but there,
and here,
appetent at our fingertips.
seconds are waiting to be found,
to be formed, to mix with string theories
and ideas of special relativity,
illuminating possibilities.
i want to matter,
to exist
where our actions and reactions live in distant galaxies
reflected back in our eyes, close.
you say we're blind, stuck—
i say, perspective.
succumb to black holes and swallow white;
we can't resist the pull, but can escape.
i want to see the tiny lines in your irises waver:
overactive nerve impulses, momentum quickening
the beat under your breast, chill bumps raised on flesh,
eager to be freed and consumed, without resistance.
with might and main, equate this:
gravity is collapsing, and soon,
we'll build anew from scattered stardust.
--
1/30/2013
Literature
Everything You Borrowed
On Sunday afternoon,
after exiting the church,
you plucked the sun from the sky
and hid it in your palms
so that when I held your hands
they would no longer be cold.
When Monday night arrived
you snatched every single star
and used my tears to make
a necklace.
Tuesday's empty dawn shone
through the cracks of the door--
you stole the promise of what
could never be
and draped it around my shoulders.
After Wednesday's twilight passed,
you grabbed the clouds
and wove a tapestry of lies
that I hung on the walls
of my prison.
Thursday crept through us
on silent tiptoes,
waiting for us to take notice--
instead, we merely waited
for midnight to
Literature
Goodbye
i didn’t fall in love with you
until your skin was already grey and i
had to tell you what the weather was like
since you couldn’t leave your bed.
i didn’t mind long nights in the hospital
because making you laugh brought a warmth
to my cheeks that burnt hotter than a
forest fire, you never laughed at me for blushing
i snuck you in alcohol and forbidden foods
and pushed you around in that rusted wheel chair,
and all the nurses looked at us with
miserable eyes that said more than the doctors
would ever tell me.
naively i thought it was good news
when you said they were sending you home; but
when i saw you strewn across
Literature
Grandma
“Is there something terribly wrong with me?”
I sigh and look up from my book. In the evening light my grandmother stares back at me, utterly unaware that it’s the third time she’s asked in as many minutes. Complex maps of wrinkles frame her wide eyes, each crease charting the grief, joy and laughter of a lifetime she is slowly forgetting. I look at her and I remember the wit and spark that used to punctuate her speech. I remember the way she used to strike up a conversation with anyone, anywhere; how she’d find wonder in the simplicity of everyday life. Her curiosity, her sense of adventure, her love of the worl
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I had the chance to collab with the super wonderful and lovely...yeaaah, she wants to remain anonymous. But trust me, she's amazing. 
Miss Amazing is hella smart and started this off with all her physics-speak which meant I've done more studying of physics— including special relativity, black holes, white holes, and supernovas —then I've ever done before.
I came to find that a supernova is kinda awesome because it's something massive that explodes/collapses but in doing so, creates something new. Sounds beautiful to me.
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Miss Amazing is hella smart and started this off with all her physics-speak which meant I've done more studying of physics— including special relativity, black holes, white holes, and supernovas —then I've ever done before.
I came to find that a supernova is kinda awesome because it's something massive that explodes/collapses but in doing so, creates something new. Sounds beautiful to me.
If you have a better title suggestion, lay it on us, please.
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