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tender square i know for a fact that
your prodigious use of coppertone
makes a closed loop in my mind,

lights the ol’ olfactory bulb
and the wattage of our memories
shimmers like your olive skin.

that first trip to the lake,
sizzling sunny-side up,
millions of sand granules stuck

to the undersides of our feet.
i turn my head to the roots
of a tattooed tree of life

crowning on your shoulder:
this is our beginning.
it takes 8,000 flowers

to capture a milliliter
of jasmine’s riches;
your supine body presses

against every particle
of my being—a breath
of perfumed promise.
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what's it to you?
who go
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