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Poetry As A Woman by Jaimee Boake

she is sunrise early morning coffee

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she is sunrise early
morning coffee on          breath-
less at watching the world wake

she is wine-soaked hazy star gazing
into a cracked mirror

she is stripped bare shiver
running to spine        tip-
toeing around the truth

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