Poems from thomastho

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I really wanted my poetry to be more than just flowers and butterflies, but I mostly write like someone who has nothing but flowers and butterflies.
I’ve learned to fear wanting too many things. The selfishness I’ve harboured as a child has melted from a stain to just a bruise. The...
Am I to remain unmoved by how she cries in her sleep? How do I keep my doubt at bay, pin down curiosity towards those dreams?   Whose death...
I feel uneven, Like the water sodden windowsills in my childhood home-- The floors have been warped by piss-fed mold. I can neither walk...
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Like a mystic, he lifted me by my flexing throat And read my blood for signs of death. Morse code against my neck told how I was to die. I...
I braided together the necks of three cranes- Circumventing my crooked womb to give birth to The off-brand limp Cerberus of a modern...

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