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  September 2022     1 month ago

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White Noise

dip
the tip of your toast
in egg yolk
and I watch
as it slides from your lip
and runs down your chin
onto your collar
leaving a sliver of bright yellow
on your white shirt and against
the dreary bleached sky
that blends with the snow,
...

– by Naomi Sara Buote

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Letters


use to write
each other letters,
encyclopedias of our love

today
a trickle of blood
makes its way
out of me
each time
a silent vowel dies
at the end of the words
alone and invisible

you look at me
like a pinprick,
your flinty...

– by Naomi Sara Buote

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