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Lydia Rae Bush Poetry

Tag: healing

Secret

January 9, 2023 Alphabet Ravine2 Comments

I hung the skeleton on the outside of the closet.
Funnily enough, the skeleton looked like me.

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Child of the Open Air

February 15, 2022February 13, 2022 Alphabet Ravine4 Comments

Grabbing my toes,
I pull my butt out from beneath me,
flip me upside down,
and shake.

I plop her back on her butt and smack
her back and wait
and wait and wait

for her to burp, spit or vomit,
or to drop from any pocket

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When You Leave

November 2, 2021November 3, 2021 Alphabet Ravine10 Comments

You will relax into the safety. Your biological rhythms will sort themselves out. 
You will become so happy. You’ll gush with excitement
then begin to see how strange it sounds to be so grateful for peace.
Hearing your laugh, you’ll almost think you now take survival for granted.

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Berez

January 8, 2018February 9, 2022 Alphabet RavineLeave a comment

By six years of age,
one ought to know some basic lessons,
like, “Not a peep ‘til the teacher calls
on your raised hand.”

I knew this lesson.
Berez did not.Read More »

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