natural
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my teeth are soft - i swallow whole
i steal shapes
i personify clothes
paper doll wearing cutouts
transparent figure trying on bones
dawn brings demands
spider stringing pearls on webs
sundown - dashed, scattered
identity roulette
Patchwork persona
different at every inch
magpie nest of mud and twigs
knitting with loose ends
tapestry of shredded threads
prisms through whom I project
diamond with fifty-seven faces
nestled in the dirt- dug up by ravens
slideshow circling inside me
small planets on their orbit
the carousel - a revolution

Genevieve Rabideau
is a queer Aries studying creative writing and art history. She loves her cats, car rides in the rain and has a massive sweet tooth.
shadow work
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You worked on your shadows and then
you became one,
now -
I sit in our umbra
counting the swings
of the pendulum
over this illusion
we’ve drawn in sand
Slept on
the sound of this
long enough -
the steady leak, the sifting,
left it out overnight to
collect rainwater
Four months of licking
before we reached the center,
and therein lies
the physics of things.