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I left the kind of wedding that made you want to get married. Oaks, live witnesses to promises you were sure they'd keep. Car ride home...
Empress Indignant
Lena Drake
Empress Indignant
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Lena Drake
- Apr 21
- 1 min
the boy with three houses
Did you think I forgot you? Velvet hands and lifts in your shoes. Took the invitation to your house upstate where I worried we'd split...
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Lena Drake
- Mar 16
- 1 min
Pomegranate
In my dream you showed up out of nowhere, pomegranate in December. You were sweet and ready, like you weren’t before. The last time I saw...
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Lena Drake
- Mar 10
- 1 min
Maria
She calls me lady as she takes my order as if I was someone to be respected. I am not, neither are the men with their red faces and...
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Lena Drake
- Nov 22, 2021
- 1 min
40 years a woman
When she learned she grew less with life but swelled with stress. When they heard they sent gifts in boxes too big to fit what she'd...
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Lena Drake
- Nov 9, 2021
- 1 min
The Wild Girl
You’ll find her on Sunset Blvd heavy eyes, lips ajar. She picks a carnation, white, from the neighbor's lawn. Her face lifts and falls,...
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Lena Drake
- Jun 23, 2021
- 1 min
Don't Need You To See Me
I used to find you funny. You’re thinner now, like each year has eaten the pieces of your insides that used to make me laugh. I used to...
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Lena Drake
- Apr 13, 2021
- 1 min
Unreliable
Forever, you say,
is how we console children
you don't believe in consolation
but I am a child
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Lena Drake
- Mar 11, 2021
- 1 min
I've Imagined
How often I've imagined your voice after coffee; the sound like scratching; the smell like desert. How often I've imagined your fingers...
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Lena Drake
- Jan 15, 2021
- 1 min
To Whom Does The Body Belong
The vastness of her legs and stomach
belong to a higher power.
She is not owner, but vassal of
her figure; supplying their demand.
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Lena Drake
- Oct 27, 2020
- 1 min
to remember your face at night
Reaching across the clammy world
to remember your face at night
the cities we've stepped on
frenzied with drink
and the sounds of love
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Lena Drake
- Oct 2, 2020
- 1 min
In Another World
In another world, you took the 9am flight and moved into an apartment on Bleecker Street, so you could tell everyone you lived in New York.
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Lena Drake
- Sep 11, 2020
- 1 min
Delusion has a maternal instinct
Dinner is ready and the weather is great and I love my job and the kids are just fine and we have a trip planned for summer and isn't that s
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Lena Drake
- Aug 30, 2020
- 1 min
the thick of you
I made this mess
in the thick of you;
the tangled, stuffy bits
with their shades
of distrust
their claws.
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Lena Drake
- Aug 7, 2020
- 1 min
Letter to LA
I arrived much obliged, having waited quite some time to reside in Tinseltown. But what I’d marveled at from afar—what I thought were...
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Lena Drake
- Jul 15, 2020
- 1 min
A matter of perspective
Do you remember me as I am?
I lean against your empty wall
or as you wanted me to be?
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Lena Drake
- Jul 6, 2020
- 1 min
When the sun is constant
Nothing breathes here, not the way you're supposed to
where you give back what you take in.
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Lena Drake
- May 22, 2020
- 1 min
Bad Lands
sweet boy, tired boy to the Bad Lands we go searching for eyes I can’t find anymore yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers with spines strong and...
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Lena Drake
- May 7, 2020
- 1 min
Stay for breakfast, or drugs
The age of, "Are you staying for breakfast," wears off, as do the drugs.
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1993
Just tell the story again, of the sparrows who flew from falling Rome, their blazed wings.
-Ocean Vuong
