Category: Little One

• His black coat

  His black coat stains
  into the night.

  — Margeaux

  April 1, 2024

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• our history

  The muscles in my face,
  so used to being stuck in place
  as the scowl i forgot they formed,
  loosen when I think of you.
  this brightness, who pulled me from the darkness,
  unafraid even though I was of
  what real life was and what
  my life, our life, could be as
  two people so naturally
  becoming our history that
  we look back on and say
  weren’t we happy?
  weren’t we real life?
  weren’t we fighting
  just to be together?

  and then one day
  we’ll tell her everything
  so she knows
  who you and I were
  before and after
  we became we

  February 28, 2024

  ForRealLife

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• poke-a-dotted screen

  her little prints
  poke-a-dot my screen,
  swiped and circled and
  reminding me of
  her heels
  swinging
  over
  toes
  to the joy
  of using
  daddy’s ipad

  August 11, 2023

  NotAPolkadot

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• we three

  we three
  fighting against
  the currents,
  like we want
  to get to tomorrow,
  when we’ll be looking back on today
  and our lives will be fixed, with all
  of our mistakes forgiven or
  pushed out from our memories
  by all the smiles
  and laughter
  and patience
  I
  wish
  I
  gave
  you
  more
  of
  while
  you’re
  still
  young
  enough
  to
  remember
  how
  to
  be
  happy.

  April 13, 2023

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• I got all I need

  I got all I need
  to be what I want
  in this world
  in this world

  I got me and she and she
  (I got her and her and me)
  in this world
  in this world

  April 7, 2023

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• I am so proud of you.

  you remind me very much of
  those days i smiled without
  needing a reason to—yet
  I remember more
  the times I scolded you,
  told you to change,
  told you to be better,
  told you to listen,
  told you so much
  but gave you nothing to grow with.

  I am so proud of you.
  I am in constant awe
  of who you are and
  who you will be
  when i’m not
  around but will still
  smile with you.

  I am so proud of you.
  you bring this world
  a light, so
  keep shining;
  keep being you.

  March 26, 2023

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• you two

  you two
  are
  wildflowers
  outside
  my cave

  March 25, 2023

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• she runs her fingers

  she runs
  her fingers
  through my
  hair,
  un-tangling
  me

  February 1, 2023

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• you step

  you step
  on
  my
  ankles,
  walk on
  my calves,
  lean on my shoulders
  and I wish you could always.

  I miss you and your radiance,
  your warmth,
  your little hands
  grabbing mine to
  show you have all the strength
  I know you have but want you to always show anyway.

  January 24, 2023

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• We looked up,

  We looked up,
  Between the sign and the light,
  And the twigs on trees,
  To see—or to half-see—Jupiter, shining
  In its proximity;
  But you
  Were more interested
  In
  Saturn
  Placed
  In sight
  Away from Earth’s calamity.

  October 10, 2022

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