Watching What You Can't Hold

smoke-stack girl 

floating just beyond reach

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when i said i like chocolate delicacies

i meant mouthfuls of milo and strawberries on spoons

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smoke-stack girl

dancing in the breeze

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when i said you washed over me like a storm

i meant you filled my heart with rain

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smoke-stack girl

swimming inside a bubble of champagne

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when i said you leave me empty-hearted

i meant, in the sun, i'm a puddle left to dry

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smoke-stack girl

cradling the denim-blue moon

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when i said i'm a cloud waiting to die

i meant you're a graveyard in the sky

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Stevi-Lee Alver is an Australian writer and tattoo artist. She lives in the middle of Brazil with her wife. She loves bush walks and waterfalls but misses the ocean.

This poem is part of the drains of her mind collection.