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The way you’d say my name
like it was the medicine
and the fever.

but I know I could spend a July counting her freckles and an August making sure I got the number right,

Ode to Red Lipstick

“Cleopatra crushed beetles
to make red lipstick
because even in 30 BC
she knew speaking twelve languages
would be even more impressive
when the words jumped
through a ring of fire”

When it Ended

“You said my name the way my mother intended it.”