CRYSTAL SENTER-BROWN
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dandelion


I sometimes wonder
if you can sense the way
your energy fills

a room, the way knees
begin to buckle and bend
at the mere sight of

you? How sharing the
same space often ignites the
smokey, firework

filled- frenzies. You are
buttoned up/ combustible/
a windsor/ (k)not for the

weary/ even on
your off-day, sex seems to seep
from every

ounce of you. And when
your smile begins to descend
upon your lips i

quietly picture
my own, brushing against them.
The assembly line

of adoration
forms and soon there is no room
for me/ they dive in

hips first, swimming in
your contagious grin. But you
quickly bore of this

side-show you know you
will never be without a
warm bed/ you know that

there will always be
the hungry ones, the eager
ones, struggling

up from the cracks of
the earth like dandelions
after the first rain in may.
(c) 2022 Crystal Senter-Brown
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