And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
HINNAH MIANI remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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I like to trace the ghosts of your fingers on the back of my hand. They read- I don’t know how to hold without you.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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I turn moments into poetry.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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I have lived too many lives to be only one thing, and instead of attempting to mesh them into a form of a human being, I have decided to love every jagged edge of mine.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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