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This collection of poems, short stories, aphorisms, and prose is written by

Gina Dzuware & Shalyn Delhaes

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table of contents

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“Sometimes I wonder if my poems are about my own feelings,

or about someone else’s.”

Shalyn

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open book

so what are you doing now

with all I gave you from me?

I’m scared ‘bout what you’re doing

with all of the pieces of myself

I tried to hide in first place

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eventually

and I said to him:

“you may not adore the whole city

but eventually you’ll fall in love with some corners”

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unfinished business

you left with the door open

and took all the glass

from my windows

with you,

now I’m kneeling down

behind your back,

next to these naked walls

of my room

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alive?

I’m outside of the town

but I can still hear the sounds

of the city life,

the brown dust

flying with the wind around my head,

my sight is shrouded in mist

I can barely see the lights,

and I’m all on my own