Come Home
And how is this the same body that bent at the small of the back, en route to the moon—stopstopSTOP—lest you arrive too soon.
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Empress Indignant
Lena Drake
Empress Indignant
Inspired by true events
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Lena Drake
- Dec 10, 2022
- 1 min
Easy Find
Love is a big place an easy find a quick elevator ride
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Lena Drake
- Dec 6, 2022
- 1 min
Wet Dreams
He’s called three times, desperation is hereditary. Bad taste, dark blinds, sleeping beside him drains me. He cries for his mama and...
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Lena Drake
- Nov 8, 2022
- 1 min
say
Look back say do you see me bigger or smaller than I really am say redolent of love skin cut open, red and beautiful say you wanted me...
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Lena Drake
- Jun 23, 2022
- 1 min
Morning
The city begins where I end sun leaking into Athens day, a second chance Greece wakes even after they've named her dead they call what we...
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Lena Drake
- Jun 13, 2022
- 1 min
Precise Between
And once you’ve finished drying yourself out, take stock of what truths you find yourself shouting to strangers in bathrooms hoping that...
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Lena Drake
- May 17, 2022
- 1 min
Coop
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...
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Lena Drake
- Apr 21, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 1 min
Maria
She calls me lady as she takes my order as if I was someone to be respected. I am not, but look at the men red-faced with their distended...
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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
Look, before
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
Souvenir
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
Enemy
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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Just tell the story again, of the sparrows who flew from falling Rome, their blazed wings.
-Ocean Vuong
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