Your smile sweeps the pretense
From my eyes, you have made an
Honest woman of a childish parody
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Sometimes without cringing
I speak in self-exposing truths
Breath held, expecting your fists
To reinforce my elemental fortress,
How could I imagine your hands
Capable of violence? Fingertips
Binding thread to stitch together
Wounds wet and pink like the
Impatient mouths of fish mutely
Stalking. Watching you mend
That which would otherwise
Devour I understand the breadth
Of your love even if the object
Remains, in my heart, ignoble
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Albino Koi
She armors herself
In light, alabaster scales
Summoning the moon
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