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The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Grief
Cry
Nobody
Inside
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Hear
Poems
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Bones

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I thought, The flowers, save the flowers... I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people
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Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.
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That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
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And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.
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Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.
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My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.
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You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.
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I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing
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I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling bad. I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.
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Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.
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I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.
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Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.
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Love is like sunshine. Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there. I want to know that I'm here.
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