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Desirée Aquino


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You are preserved in wax, floating on the Dead Sea.
A poem Mummified in my memory, a dim but stolid lamplight that does not flicker. Many nights I ache to touch that light again. The closer I get, though, I see not incandescence. I see not you. It is my reflection from your shiny exterior that draws me. The warmth of my own heart. For you never shone for me. You stole my light, and pretended it belonged to you. So I believed for a while that it did. Now it is only the light of what I had once hoped we would be. It's a false li

Desiree Aquino
2 days ago1 min read
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Purple
A poem You are not my first instance of purple. Your malevolent color, filled with loathing and shame. No. I met purple years and years...

Desiree Aquino
Aug 15, 20241 min read
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Flames
A poem In every space we occupied, intimate and public. In every place we visited, familiar and foreign. In every moment we shared, alone...

Desiree Aquino
Jun 29, 20241 min read
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The hands of men I've held
A poem The shoulders I've set my head upon The foreheads I've pressed with my own. Each different in ways I don't remember now Can't be...

Desiree Aquino
Jan 24, 20241 min read
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