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Working Through It- (taken from Me and The Dirt I Rise From)

from Selected Chapbook Poems by Julia Alexander

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Working Through It
the second
coming,
the hot tears,
the pushing,
the holding.

the steam from
the shower,
washing away the
blood,
putting the dress
in the pile of
dirty laundry.

the time passing,
tending to the
open wound,
the world continuing
to spin no matter
how many times
I beg it to stop.

the acceptance,
the removal of bandages,
the motions of this life
in the after,
everything as painfully
the same as
the before.

the reminder,
the denial,
tell myself to stop thinking about it.
the steam
from the shower,
there is no blood left to wash.
there are no wounds left to heal.

this is not what I wanted to write about
today.
this is not what I wanted to think about
ever again.

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from Selected Chapbook Poems, released June 5, 2014

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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.

To contact Julia for inquires of all sorts e-mail juliaalexanderpoetry@gmail.com
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