Excerpt:
I dug deeper into the earth,
severing roots that were never fully connected,
ones that I thought that were a part of me.
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Cast Out of Eden: Weeds
Excerpt:
my side of the garden endured,
as I scraped back bare soil:
the earth I once remembered,
the remnants of what I started with.
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Cast Out of Eden: The Breakdown
Excerpt:
Matter weathered
by the elements,
crumbling like us,
to the ground,
where we both originated.
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Cast Out of Eden: What Remains
Excerpt:
Alone,
a prisoner of my own making,
I allow you to keep me hostage…
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Cast Out of Eden: The Edge
Excerpt:
I hold myself from the edge
not so you can be the one to save me,
but save myself from you.
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Cast Out of Eden: The Grave
Excerpt:
So, I left the table,
seeking another restaurant,
only to have them follow me,
said that I could never leave,
until I told them
I never asked them to stay.
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Cast Out of Eden: Iron Maiden
Excerpt:
I put myself
inside
to flee you,
only to entrap myself…
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Cast Out of Eden: Doll
Excerpt:
Like she did to the doll now,
but the glass hands are cold now,
feel brittle to the touch,
fragile,
as if they could break
with just one careless move.
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Cast Out of Eden: The Vase
Excerpt:
..but the sentiment felt odd
since the love had grown cold,
fading,
ailing,
like a floral arrangement,
long after the feed packets are gone…
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J.L. Smith 