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Friday, February 25, 2011

Winter

This is a poem for my poetry class it has to be about winter (note my lazy title).

Mother is bone white and black.
Daughter born from cocaine breath
came out on the cusp of winter.
A wispy gasp and darkened heart
skin is paper stretched over bone
white sheet, dark pen, dark red.
Mother warns daughter to not love death
to not long to feel his dark eyes
fall upon her breasts.
Daughter is of winter locking,
a chest begging to be opened to light,
fill the lungs with dirt and breathe life.
Mother is bone white and black,
her burning head stares down.
Daughter turns away again – frozen.

1 comment:

  1. i <3 "wispy gasp."

    it's really intense!

    'bone white' and 'bone'
    really stand out
    and 'dark pen, dark red'
    give a great contrast
    against the white.

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