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Fairydust

March 19, 2011
By ArinellWingheart GOLD, Boulder, Colorado
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ArinellWingheart GOLD, Boulder, Colorado
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"I don't think I can change the world, but I'll give everything I have to make the world change itself."

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Today it rained fairydust
and settled on my eyelashes

rested glimmering cheeks
against pained shoulder blades

and the skin grows hot and tight
pulling taut against my bones

finally ready to raise wings
into a checkerboarded sky

© Morgan R., Haddon Heights, NJ

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