collection of haiku; wor(l)d

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Late afternoon sun

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sings with pink shoes and knees bruised

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in peppercorn trees.

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Late afternoon, sun

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reads shadowing lines, in her

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stories made of trees.

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The scent of mangoes

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heals the summer air, threads stuck

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between baby teeth.

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Cents of Man, go &

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steal her teddy bears, threads stuck

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between adult teeth.

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Juniper tree barks—

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where we breathed in grasshoppers

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& wasps; mud-stained hands.

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Juniper tree barks

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at her—as she consumed like

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a hungry termite.

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Types of clause learned,

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spelling tests and crowded rooms.

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No thoughts are shuttered.

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Types of claws learned,

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blood tests and empty chambers.

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All thoughts are scattered.

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Hair looms in dense braids,

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with stringed jasmine finding its

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way through the oiled strands.

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Heirlooms in dense braids,

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with diseased grief finding its

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way though her white strands.

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She's a girl, dreaming

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all night, diffracting colours.

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Who's afraid of want?

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She's a girl dreaming.

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All day, refracting colours—

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who's afraid of want.

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love, 
afifa

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sweetlystained