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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.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Felt
Home
Ever
Heart
Thing
Like
Bloodstream
Kneeling
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I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts
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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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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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I thought, The flowers, save the flowers... I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people
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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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Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.
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Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.
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My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
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