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“I want to be unabashed, audacious, to gobble / space, to blush deeper each day in the sun, knowing / I’ll end up in an eager mouth.”

"I do not want / to give myself—I want to be stem, / stamen, petal, not blossom, not bloom—"

"and she said honey / she calls me that sometimes / she said you can do just exactly / what you want to"