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A blurred image of a face with poetic verse that reads as follows: press me until my bones quake my heart wakes my spirit fills my body my head is empty bursting at the seams filled with nothing but bad bad dreams fill me with your life and hold me as i tremble somber faces dark and close my name written... my name written...
“press me”
Poem © Johnnie Mae Boutwell
Adapted from artwork © Pexels (photographer unknown)
“lost”
Poem © Johnnie Mae Boutwell
Adapted from artwork © Pexels (photographer unknown)
A black and white abstract image of a blurred figure in a flowing dress. The effect creates a sense of movement and ethereal quality. Poetic verse overlay reads: my skin sits wrong on bones that rattle a marionette on loose strings
“marionette”
Poem © Johnnie Mae Boutwell
Adapted from artwork © Pexels (photographer unknown)
A blurred black and white image of a person with flowing hair. Poetic verse overlay reads: it's hard to come back once you're so far away and who i am is who i was who i always have been have i changed, have i changed? is there nothing left for me here> I wanted to feel alive just this once the sun on my face deep earth in my lungs the smell on the wind i am who i am i'm so far away the brush of your hand gone
“gone”
Poem © Johnnie Mae Boutwell
Adapted from artwork © Pexels (photographer unknown)
Silhouette of a person with long hair, against a textured background. Poetic verse overlay reads: watching people seeing how they dress taking notes on what to wear and how to act which way to sit and how to laugh am i so uncomfortable so obvious out of place on a different plane disjointed from reality failing failing again miserably for reasons i can't identify clumsy childish sloppy conspicuous like a glaring neon sign a little girl with her mothers lipstick all over her teeth
“lipstick”
Poem © Johnnie Mae Boutwell
Adapted from artwork © Pexels (photographer unknown)

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