{"id":1781,"date":"2013-06-18T03:36:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T03:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2017-07-11T20:48:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T20:48:46","slug":"vespertine-by-lauren-payne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/vespertine-by-lauren-payne\/","title":{"rendered":"Vespertine by Lauren Payne"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vespertine<\/h1>\n

by Lauren Payne<\/p>\n

the hot and sticky slow has rolled around again
\nand there she is
\nrestless under the little dipper
\ndrying out.
\nshe smokes and paces and wishes
\nfor the milky way to pour itself down on her
\nto drown her in the stars
\nall those tiny embers glittering like diamonds on her sun baked skin
\ncatching in her black hair
\nforming new universes in her tresses.
\nthe warm air stirs against her shoulder blade
\nher flesh mistakes it for breath
\nfor hands
\nfor lips
\nand she’s on her back
\nbeneath the endless sky
\ndrying out.
\nthirsting for thick hands and the sea.<\/p>\n

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\nLauren Payne is a Bay Area misfit transplant, originally from Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been published in various online literary journals as well as in print in The Best of Vine Leaves Anthology 2012. When not frightening strangers with her writing, she is likely hunting through record stores, traveling through the southern US, and reading books it will take years to finish. She lives & works in Oakland, CA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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