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The Geek Girls
Were we never robins? No, we never were.
No one recognized spring in us, though great elms
grew inside our rib cages. They pushed their spiny
tips outward, so that we felt small stabbings daily,
but they never broke through. So we were never spring,
never foliage. We were the small and oddball beasts:
anoles, silverfish, shrimp. We moved fast and sideways,
upways, allways but straight. We heard of nights lit
with lightning bugs and cigarettes. With rumflame
and tonguefire. We needed none of it. The nights were
black puzzleboxes and we solved them. It was easy -
in the darkness, our minds sparked like flint.
Then I learned that we're born
with more bones than we die with.
The Quiet Girls"
Were we never wolves? No, we never were.
We never let ourselves be lured into a lair.
We never licked honey off an eyetooth
just for the sweet. We never swallowed
our own blood with the honey. We were
neither animal nor stone. We were ephemeral,
motes in light, breath in winter. Drifting
was safe travel; we knew it then, and we were right.
The earth slowed its spinning and we stayed on.
Trenches yawned, and we skirted them. We survived
the meteor shower - no fragments fell on us.
Still we float like spores, always aloft and away.
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