Quotes From "Dandelions That Have Held Your Breath" By Mikl Paul

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I don't know if I have ever truly believed that everyone deserves love. But if I had to take it one moment further into those shadowed valleys of heartfull, I would admit that I do believe that love, deserves everyone. Mikl Paul
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There are these places on your poem, / where I want to write bodies. Mikl Paul
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And you taste / of the memory of god abandoned. Mikl Paul
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The city they are building asks you to stay; remind yourself what is worth keeping, while the lighthouse of your moan warns the ship of your heart that he is a stone. Mikl Paul
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I want to gossip about forever / against the part of your back that / is mine. Mikl Paul
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I negate this distance with / what it would be / to be shining you. Mikl Paul
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She told me there was a place on my face she wanted to inhale. Mikl Paul
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He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a summer. and He wanted to find it. Mikl Paul
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He left the next morning, searching for a city with light that reminded him of me. He would mail me empty envelopes and boxes, I would take them into my closet, shut the door, and quickly open them. A flash of foreign light would fill the room, but only for a moment. I would whisper ‘this is what we’re like, this is what we’re like.’… Mikl Paul
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Nowhere hidden has ever turned away a goodheart guest. Mikl Paul
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Later when they would mention, they would say, and everyone would know, but not nearly as well as they meant. Mikl Paul