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Cee Cee Elle
Cee Cee Elle

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May 30, 2021

As Expected

I grow up in a small town. Go to church. Sing in the choir. Get confirmed in a faith I do not have. I take my instructions with eyes averted and teeth clenched. Get straight As. Win championships. Show them too much. I do not talk back to my mother. I watch my mother…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Mar 7, 2021

Reconstruction Site

I rise before the strike of hammer on wood And the heat of mid-day eyes force me in In time to hear the lonely watch descend And the tattered armor flap in the wind Like a shelled sigh of victory In time to see the flood lights drowned by dawn And…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Human Parts

·Jul 26, 2020

Genetics

‘I make my case over and over. Unable to tell if I am convincing anyone.’ — I lay out ingredients. Not five minutes before, as I start to cook. Like normal people. I take them out an hour in advance. Set them on the counter. Unmeasured, unchopped. Mental meal prep. I am 10 minutes late. Always optimistic that I can get my shit together fast. A…

Family

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Love, Anger, and Genetics
Love, Anger, and Genetics
Family

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AMPLIFY

·Apr 6, 2020

Numb with Numbers

Every morning we take inventory of our failure Beds, too few Tests, too late Masks, worn out Accountability, gone We tick off, one by one The vulnerable years The secluded weeks The infectious days The interminable hours The seconds it takes to wash it all away Day after day, we…

Covid-19

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Numb with Numbers
Numb with Numbers
Covid-19

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Apr 5, 2020

Mu

We lie, drunk, on a couch too narrow to contain us. Like college lovers on a Twin XL, Sinking into one another To keep from falling. You ask how I am feeling how you should do it how I can be sure You wonder if you are enough if I…

Love

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Love

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Mar 12, 2020

Re-member

I remember I re-member Teeth clenching curled lip Without words Strands flicked skyward Electrified within Ink like veins Tracing time and place and purpose Hands conducting symphonies In thin air, on soft skin Scar where eye nearly kissed iron And went dark I re-member I remember You

Poetry

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Poetry

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Aug 30, 2019

To Bottle Lightning

I feel it coming. Shadows creeping up softly, Smothering the light That just now danced in your eyes. I see it rising. Quicksilver forked and flickering, Electric tongues Setting fire to the space between. I step out, Clicking frame after frame, Chasing proof Of the current connecting earth to sky. …

Poetry

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To Bottle Lightning
To Bottle Lightning
Poetry

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Aug 12, 2019

14 Stairs

There are 14 stairs in the house that grew me Where we held hands and locked eyes Blue on blue/brown Reciting the ritual rhyme On the step where we always stopped And marked The coming of the night. There are 14 stairs in the house that grew me Where I lay…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Jun 23, 2019

Time Bound

If had more time, I wouldn’t wish it gone so fast. Wouldn’t rush to an age when years dissolve in minutes. Would savor the slow unfurling hours, Unburdened by the weight of what’s to come. If I had more time, I wouldn’t mistake myself for the enemy. Wouldn’t lay siege to my…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Apr 21, 2019

Reins

I grew my hair long to spite my face. That’s what you wanted, wasn’t it? Reins, woven lustrous thick, To pull me back When I strayed too far Or bucked too hard. Led from behind, just out of sight, I drank from a source That would not satisfy, Fed on empty palms Clenched tight Like…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Cee Cee Elle

Cee Cee Elle

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(Public health) nerd. (Aspiring) creative. Generally conflicted.

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