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by Jasmine Flowers<\/p>\n

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Some unboxed words<\/p>\n

should be left alone.<\/p>\n

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Those boxes hold<\/p>\n

jewels for my hair,<\/p>\n

spiders for my light,<\/p>\n

peaches for my sink.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t use \u2018em all up. <\/em><\/p>\n

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I pick a few to go<\/p>\n

with my baby teeth.<\/p>\n

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Jasmine Flowers is a well-watered poet from Birmingham, AL. Her poems appear in River Mouth Review, Cypress Literary Journal, perhappened<\/em>, and more. She is currently a poetry editor for Variant Literature<\/em>. Find her at jn-flowers.com<\/a> and @jas_flow<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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by Jasmine Flowers   Some unboxed words should be left alone.   Those boxes hold jewels for my hair, spiders for my light, peaches for my sink.   Don\u2019t use \u2018em all up.   I pick a few to go with my baby teeth.   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}