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Alana Folsom: Anatomy of a Dream

April 25, 2018 by PBQ Leave a Comment

        After I send you the picture of my naked body
I dream my nipples are bird beaks
     They remain shut   small   pointed things
then they grow      like lying noses
        grow like hardening dicks                 in flight
hummingbirds look like matches
             at the base of their long bill       a throaty blaze
in flight     hummingbirds sound like matches    perpetually lighting 
        Perhaps my nipples are matches
Pink & flaming & waiting to spark
        perhaps my nipples are hungry          winging matches

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