carissaconstantini1
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Joined: June 2022 Last seen: 4 days ago

Submitted Poems 2 total

Dancing with Darkness Shall we dance to the music of your heart? Listen now, quiet down, take a step, take a bow. Before we go fix your face, find your grace, and go on. Smile pretty so they can't see everything wrong with you and me. They'll watch as we spin, as... – *by Carissa Constantini*	121 Views added 1 year ago	Rating
The Vines Inside “There are vines inside your mother,” Daddy says, “squeezing as they grow. Tightening and taking and suffocating Is all they’ve grown to know.” “They wrap around her lifelines,” Daddy says, “cutting off what’s left. There’s not... – *by Carissa Constantini*	58 Views added 1 year ago	Rating

Shall we dance to the music of your heart?
Listen now, quiet down, take a step, take a bow.
Before we go fix your face, find your grace, and go on.
Smile pretty so they can't see everything wrong with you and me.

They'll watch as we spin, as...

– by Carissa Constantini

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added 1 year ago

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The Vines Inside

“There are vines inside your mother,”

Daddy says, “squeezing as they grow.

Tightening and taking and suffocating

Is all they’ve grown to know.”

“They wrap around her lifelines,”

Daddy says, “cutting off what’s left.

There’s not...

– by Carissa Constantini

58 Views

added 1 year ago

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