Circling tremor beneath
The flowers
Pulling, sucking at the roots
Waxen petals
Blend
With Dirt
Intone the musical whisper
Of your gut
Especially because you think it
Ugly, unknowable, naked
You must
Descend the hearth steps
Brick
Stone
Earth
Where Nothing
Drips
Fingertips
Lick dry lips
The table’s arranged
Don’t let slip
The infinite secret song
This aspect is
Barefoot-tender
Step and step
We can cross...
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Thank you for the chances you offered me
The Doors you opened
That I took
That I walked through
And for letting me see your anger
When I didn’t
And thank you for letting me know
That your anger didn’t mean
I was wrong
Thank you so much
For pushing me to dig deeper
Under the sleepiness
To get to my terror and rage and grief
How trained I’d been
To say I was fine
After I’d fallen and
Hurt...
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She is a
Prisoner
A broken, brilliant almost
Secreting dances
Ferocious or
Soft
Burning to be
Born
Trembling beneath
The skin
Unseen
Dying to burst out
Into the light
Hoping against hope to
Not go unsung
Into the dreamless...
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