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Bella

2/22/2015

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found you in my dreams last night
called you "daughter" and
could not sleep nor let go
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especially at night

2/14/2015

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sometime is an illusion
maybe is constantly jealous of,
especially at night
when anything is possible,
and it is refreshing
to forget to breathe

©Erin Croley
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open to suggestions

2/14/2015

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Curious if whiskey and root beer
work better than the mother-wife combo
because we
are out of Coke
and I don't drink soda

©Erin Croley

(and yes, I know root beer is a soda)
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my kids are learning EspaƱol

2/14/2015

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staring at la página en blanco
for weeks
a desire to write
too equally consumed
con ser mamá y esposa
to recall what I am doing

©Erin Croley
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lost

1/24/2015

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this night
when brilliance slides
in and out with the making
and remaking of bedsheets
I fail again and again
to recapture
myself

©Erin Croley
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worth the risk

1/8/2015

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in this house of pale faces
empty tissue boxes
and too-many-tiny-things to do
I should have welcomed early sleep
but silence (and cookies)
are worth the risk

©Erin Croley
(from a #capturedpoets Twitter prompt)
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distant rain

1/3/2015

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car doors close
fireworks ignite and
this house breathes
(so loudly)
that I wish for thunder
and the calm of
distant rains

©Erin Croley
(from a #VerseReversal Twitter prompt)
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Me too

12/16/2014

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From the other room I can hear my son wander across the hall to find my husband in bed. He sleepily asks, "Where's Mommy?" My husband tells him I'm working, and invites him to lay in my spot for a little bit. Instead of scrambling up to take his offer, Z innocently pleas, "But I want her to lay with me."

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black

5/20/2014

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the close of eyelids should
reveal black, but mine
seep grey tints
of the day and desire and

move time

out

of my hands


©Erin Croley
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the space between midnight and morning

4/4/2014

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the space between midnight and morning
elongates
as the craving
your kiss should have calmed
keeps me awake


©Erin Croley
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