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corey leigh kirby commented on the post, casting 4 weeks ago
like a net over ocean
wind lifting it up, pushing it down
sailor arms struggle
to keep it in place
to hostage just a bite
of the sea
to live onso you cast your body
over mine -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, tales 3 months, 1 week ago
of giant beanstalks
and men on moons
and bread-crumb trails,
it is no wonder
we are so
unsatisfied. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, wall 4 months, 2 weeks ago
walls yellow from cigarette smoke,
peeling from humidity
of georgia.
her baby begins to cry
and she looks down at him
as if she has forgotten
he is the weight in arms.
as if she did not remember
that without him, she wouldn’t
feel so heavy. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, speak 4 months, 3 weeks ago
the wood floor
speaks to my feet
as they sweep
up & down the hall.“go to sleep”
it creaks, moans
as wind bends beneath
it.when you are a writer,
everything talks. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, must 5 months, 1 week ago
never think
about rain
and baseball
and the sound of a wet bat
missing the thin skin
of a perfect pitch. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, determined 6 months, 1 week ago
he puts a cigarette
between his lips.
“I thought you quit”, i say.he makes a gun
with his index finger
and thumb, aims it at a passing plane.“there are worse
ways to die.” -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, presented 6 months, 1 week ago
on knees, she begs
god to do something.
to help her,
hasn’t she suffered enough? she wonders.god shakes his head.
this presentation,
he has seen it before. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, roof 6 months, 1 week ago
roof under our backs
slants us forward- an offering.
if we push off,
a bemused moon
will catch us. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, both 6 months, 2 weeks ago
i ask if you would rather be
blind
or deaf?both, you say.
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corey leigh kirby changed their profile picture 10 months, 4 weeks ago
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corey leigh kirby commented on the post, holder 10 months, 4 weeks ago
man, with too
small nails from biting,
watches the
woman holding
a beer by its neck
remembering how those
hands once folded
his shirts while
singing. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, bucket 11 months, 2 weeks ago
she carries mulch
in a tin bucket,
dirty gloves,
hand shovel,
and piles them by
the neighbor’s fence. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, base 1 year, 1 month ago
it didnt matter
if the batter made
it to first base. all
that mattered was
wink you gave me
before you threw
the first pitch. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, tasting 1 year, 1 month ago
toes tasting water-
this moment we think
will be the best
of our lives.this moment we
will later think about
when we worry
we have let the
wrong person go. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, hallowed 1 year, 1 month ago
the way he says your name,
palms lifted in
marbled air
showing you have
evaporated into sky
and cloudy heaven,it is as if
you were never quite real. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, alibi 1 year, 1 month ago
they want to know
where i have been
all this time.
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in a cold state,
wearing sunglasses,
smoking cigarettes. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, scorn 1 year, 1 month ago
when he kisses his thumb
and presses it against
my forehead
I know he is thinking
about how much
hates me. how he
wishes gravity would
lift me into cloud. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, sound 1 year, 1 month ago
then nothing,
the world without ears.
a bird watching,
prepared for flight. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, earring 1 year, 2 months ago
i am sorry
i lost one of
the ruby earrings
daddy bought you
for your anniversary
it has been ten years
and still
i keep looking
in tall grass. -
corey leigh kirby commented on the post, desk 1 year, 2 months ago
just papers
that fly around
the room
like winged poetry. - Load More
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