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An Ode to the One Who Loved Me by Jessica Ni Leacai

You brought love unto me, in much happier times In this sad meadow, in this dark, decrepit dense Where no wonderment danced, in these woed children’s eyes You bathed their sorrows, in loving watered tin buckets And they remember you … Continue reading

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Colliding Plangents Pulling Cecaelia Apart by Jessica Ni Leacai

A wait that weighed an anchor, strapped to this frightened frame, currents collecting all cautions uncourteous of shame. Waves dare not waft the wretched siren, as sentries craved singly lustful leisure, emotions not bought with beauty nor pleasure. Perched high upon the … Continue reading

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Dragging Dead Limbs by Jessica Ni Leacai

My legs eating the cement, how they choked on punctiates, dug, digging pot holes in steps. These feet pulling in gravel, how they dragged your weight, run, running quick sand in veins. Your traction a pulley in me, how my … Continue reading

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Broken Mirrors Kept by Jessica Ni Leacai

Charcoaled  chunks of embered fire, a window, wailing winds, where are you my love? Did disaster of dawning hours, the sun, setting suddenly, losing you in their course? Yearnfully you not present here, this bed, bodily barren, what took you … Continue reading

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Price A Paid Pain by Jessica Ni Leacai

Price A Paid Pain by Jessica Ni Leacai Penance paid,I stay, skin stripped of me, melanin melted, a solar heat,has no presence here, cold clinging to my bones Thirst taken, I recall, reused repeats of  past, pretences perculiar, as if … Continue reading

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Planted Once Found by Jessica Ni Leacai

If I was a passionate planter, I’d pluck and pierce in every canter, I’d rip the flowers from the earth, and graciously give them a better birth. I’d despel the daunting, douring weeds, and cast caution and capsule all the seeds, … Continue reading

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Indifference Deflated

You wished yourself, being singular, a pretense, pensively regretted, perhaps, in present realisation, and you, sans affectionado veritas, merely obsessed in fanatical frolics, demurred trysts, flawed your facade What monetary method nor particular persuading, could, decisively, questioned, omit errs commited in … Continue reading

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