liongirl | 1 |
morning sun on knapsack back | 2 |
furry hood on bed head | 3 |
watching trudging shadow in snow | 4 |
and picturing that you are | 5 |
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liongirl | 6 |
not idly waiting but biding | 7 |
time body sideways | 8 |
a gash an unshakeable node through icy winds | 9 |
leaning on metal posts for trees | 10 |
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and then not bussing but bounding | 11 |
blind body archways | 12 |
a dash on dispensable road down icy paths | 13 |
grasping on blackened tarps | 14 |
for soil the warm rush in the | 15 |
damp pads of your paws | 16 |
boasting that you are | 17 |
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liongirl | 18 |
with lectures for jungles | 19 |
reined queen of academic | 20 |
ambiguity more thorough than | 21 |
a machete | 22 |
sipping on vending-machine | 23 |
iced green tea | 24 |
jaws moving | 25 |
gum chewing | 26 |
tongue silent and cinnamon | 27 |
sweet ears pricked | 28 |
listening lapping up | 29 |
from pompous professors | 30 |
as though from ancient rivers | 31 |
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in lieu of roars | 32 |
liongirl's throat gets cleared | 33 |
and another assignment hacks out | 34 |
bleeding like red pens | 35 |
crimson marks on | 36 |
clawing hands searching | 37 |
in doubts for dens | 38 |
keeping in measure of the time | 39 |
between one cry | 40 |
one fury | 41 |
one flurry | 42 |
and the next | 43 |
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liongirl | 44 |
a dissappearing act in teeth | 45 |
a grinning Cheshire reaching | 46 |
and licking like fire laughing | 47 |
fluorescent and bright | 48 |
grotesque, carefree, polite | 49 |
stomach rumbling queasy | 50 |
bowed down over sushi lunch | 51 |
inserted whole in muzzled mouth | 52 |
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liongirl kowtows to clocks on campus walls | 53 |
eyes sharp on curling second hands and | 54 |
dropping her neck in an easy nod | 55 |
to a passing friend | 56 |
starts the way home early | 57 |
careful it doesn’t get dark | 58 |
come time to be alone so she can be | 59 |
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liongirl | 60 |
setting sun on sagging back | 61 |
the shadow of this hood | 62 |
wants to be you and | 63 |
you can tell yourself | 64 |
that you are | 65 |
always a step away from your boots | 66 |
you can tell yourself | 67 |
you are you are | 68 |