Poem for Readers

from Accepting the Facts by Julia Alexander

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Poem for Readers (Past, Present, and Future)
I am lace and I am cotton,
Soft and waiting to drape myself
over you again.
I am a gap-toothed girl
Grown in rose beds with dirt
Crusted under my chewed-bloody fingernails.
I am girl raised of houses
that never stopped dripping blood.
I am a heart thick with tear drops and
even thicker with molasses laughter.
I am the heavy pounding of feet on the sidewalk
getting home on time
but just barely.
I was sitting on the shoreline praying
for full moons to take me away, and
I was lost in the thicket until
you pulled me out,
scraped knees and all,
thank you.
I am waiting and yet I am still
Running. I am a captured moment
Somewhere between barefooted hot
pavement hopscotch routines and
dancing across cool tile floors tangled in your arms,
Tangled in my own rat’s nest thoughts.
I will die and be born again
before you a hundred times on this day.
I am sitting bare-breasted, chest cracked open
words a flutter.
I am a bag of lazy bones,
presented in ribbons and high heels.
I am a sacrifice to you.
I cannot say where I am now.
I cannot say who I am now.
But I am lace and I am cotton,
Soft and waiting to drape myself
Over you
Again.

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from Accepting the Facts, released November 1, 2013

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Julia Alexander Connecticut

I'm a part time poet and a full time cry baby. If you get too close to me, I'll write a really emotionally confusing poem about you. It'll be exhausting for both of us.

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