koby


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    The penny drops by koby

    The attraction was obvious (not to her)
    Several moments condensed like milk.
    He took her palm, and traced the sorry lines.
    Something shuddered (the truck)
    Pupils dilating, parting.
    Her fa…

    115 words

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    fishbowl by koby

    i saw through fishbowls and dew drops and pearls of sweat.
    saw spaceships and stardust and wide expanses.

    all i want is a handhold,a collection of tears in a little glass jar or even a few …

    157 words

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    where is spring? by koby

    i asked you if strawberries wanted to be eaten? and if not why were they so plump and inviting?
    you replied in all seriousness that they should always be kissed before they were de…

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    My capsicum Heart by koby

    what does a heart feel like? she asked her father,
    ‘like five fingers clenched’

    246 words

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    Fulgurite by koby

    what is the feeling. sugar tipped moments that melt in your palms?

    Once there was a girl who met a boy,
    the sea whispered sweet nothings.
    They saw the stripped beach, rusted pipes and ax…

    288 words

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    Ironic by koby

    The sad irony of the situation was I didn’t even have to hate him.
    He already hated himself.

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    the colour of cream by koby

    when I think of comfort it smells like you.

    46 words

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    Birds by koby

    We perched on the rooftop, two little birds, all fingers and toes.

    124 words

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    The smell of hospitals by koby

    I felt clinical, apart of the static white walls and the sickly smell of get well flowers.

    215 words

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    Once upon a girl by koby

    In summer she counted clouds and bare bellied, collected freckles like constellations.

    302 words

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    The Man by koby

    the feeder of words and the devourer of silences.

    278 words

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    Remember by koby

    Do you remember that time you bit my thumb all the way to the bone?
    Apologizing you eskimo kissed my eyelashes, lids like the membrame of butterfly wings.

    233 words

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    A jar called the universe. by koby

    The stars, like fireflies, twinkling in the jar called The Universe.
    We were small things in a Big World.

    274 words