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Arise, damnable beauty
Come out to greet me.
Send your sister on her way
And hide the stars behind your rays.
How I cherish your painful caress
As you dance, twirling your dress.
I would lay forever in your bed
Of blue silk with feathers at my head.
Though it is your sister I lay with at night
It is you I dream of in daylight.
Hot temptress, how can you burn me so?
When my true desire all along
Has been to follow you dusk til dawn.

~Kaitlin Crawford

Next to my grandmother’s house
Behind a red fence now made green
By the ivy, is a small graveyard.

A blue tarp once hung protectively,
Now drapes shamefully over a car’s skeleton.
The Buick, The Cadillac, and the old Packard

Hide behind the red fence now green with ivy,
Dreaming of their days on the road.
The weeds have grown

Into shackles around their tires
One car sits away from the pack
Daring to peek around the fence’s corner

In hopes to get the first glimpsing return
Of its owner.
A little black corvette

Dwarfed by its companions
And younger in years
The black Fiat.

 Kaitlin Crawford