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 May 13 colleen
joaquin
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 May 13 colleen
joaquin
come
lay down with me
the sun is coming up

we’ll swallow its rays
and have sunlight flowing
from our fingertips
 May 13 colleen
joaquin
mundane
 May 13 colleen
joaquin
i am reminded of you
in the overlooked
in the mundane

in the gentle banging
of our laundry machine
noisily washing our clothes

in the tapping of water
on last night’s dinnerware
that you forgot to wash

in the uneven warmth
of our bed’s duvets
as you’ve rolled yourself up in it

you are part of the world
and thus the mundane world
is now made beautiful
everything reminds me of you
so much so that if you were to disappear
everything would cease to exist

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 May 4 colleen
joaquin
i never understood
how love in silence
is any less
than love that is loud

so you mean to tell me
you think less of the fact
that you alone get to see
this lovely version of me?
for your eyes only.
 Apr 29 colleen
joaquin
i’d crack open
all the sunflower seeds
in the world for you

but what if
you were allergic
to sunflower seeds
are all my efforts in vain simply because they were in a language you can’t understand?

also what do I do with all these sunflower seeds
 Apr 21 colleen
joaquin
an impulse flight ticket to her city
to catch her off-guard

a bag of hurriedly packed clothes
and once-promised gifts

and a moment of doubtful clarity
willfully ignored as I climb onto the plane

all of this to prove to her
that i’m all hers
 Apr 15 colleen
joaquin
we will soon meet and do crazy things together and the moon will be still and you’re all mine and i’m all yours and the midnight cartoons will mask our sounds and our warmth will coalesce under the duvets and create light and it will be lovely

it will be so lovely

— The End —