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Hey, are you a boy or a — never mind, can I have a push on the swing?” And some day, y’all, when we grow up, it’s all gonna be that simple.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Push
Gonna
Grow
Boys
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Swing
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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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I'm good at loving books. I'm good at loving soft bed sheets. I'm good at loving coffees and teas. I am good at loving things that can't love me back, that don't have the power to leave. And maybe, that's why I love them.
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I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday and tonight I will borrow only pieces of who I am today to carry with me to tomorrow.
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What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
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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 write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.
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To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
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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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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun I know the heartbeat of his mother.
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Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.
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I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.
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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.
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