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sitting sideways askew
on a slick porcelain sink

a precarious slope, equation
still unknown, delayed detection

her enceinte mother paces seconds
between hope and question

waiting for me to draw parallel lines
​waiting for her to be or not be 

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white walls white washed
within reach of sticky palms 

still small like paws, clasping on
clapping out crayon dreams 

crawling along unmarked seems
scrawling behind illegible lines 
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mother sees pollock in her plaything
hasn’t the heart to swipe her streaks clean 

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who pines between lines
hugged by skin self bound


sheets of laced space where
she learned to sound out


half-spelled words from her
half-shaped heart for half-made men


who couldn’t say her yet, even
if she tried speaking then 

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why she looked up up
riding along night’s face


at friends' crack necked pace
pressed close at every turn


against the dim gleam of my reflection
she wished stars staring my direction
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wondering who i/who she might be someday
wondering when we/where we might meet someway 

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her empty cells that flake and freckle
filled full to speak sunken ink

where her naked heart
meets her naked sleeve


ready for her next moral emblem
ready for her next branded anthem


waiting for her to finish writing me
​waiting for her to finish writing her 

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Jenny Keto is a poet actress, born and raised in Austin, Texas. Currently studying to become a psychiatric nurse, many of her poems grapple with the intractable psyche and can be found online at wards, Broken City, and Visitant. Jenny thinks quite a lot about anything and nothing at all. 
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