A body schisms from the mind that works it. To live one side thinks. To survive one side does.
The connection is lost, and across the divide neither seems to notice itself starving.
Maybe they've never noticed each other, always starving.
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The wood stove heated our home. It was actually a garage with an emerald floor. Grandma and her people gathered to speak truths. They were heretics or perhaps even worse. I made sure there was kindling and enough cordwood for them. I chopped for hours in the cold.
Midnight impressions in the grass are handled as rumors from the stars, looks like a couple of dirt angels from up there where the astronauts are worried about its roots, but this seems like a task for rotating. The grass reaches up around our arms and takes us with it.
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There's still room in the shoulder-high weeds for an escapade.
Either leaping the anthills, or digging out her shoes from a sandpit.
If it was a quicksand pit. there's a tree nearby with a limb poised to give her a hand.
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#vss365 It was not attached, how could it be? Branches were arranged, after I hoisted up the discarded pallet. There were no words for this refuge. Occasionally, downy woodpeckers came to wake me. Many years ago, he whispered, “Penetralia of inanimate structures lived in flesh.”
She's careful to take steps between missing sides of a cliff & maps them just the same. Picks away at ice for a foot hold, leans back on the rope. A breath from her & the snow avalanches miles beneath. She jumps into penetralia, pulls out her pen, dangling among icicles.
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At a privilege to not know what it's like.
It isn't innate this duress to simply be or the depth of this inure while I sit on top just because.
Understand the noises of disfuntion.
Dismantle to find where the discarded pieces should have always been.
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It matters when the sun is out, because that's when she stretches from the clouds.
"The vitamin D is worth burning for it."
The light through her veins show the shape of her, down to sinews.
She crescents the sun and makes flowers out of all the ones who are weeds.
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These have sat here all day. Plates & sun-dried cucumber skins. Cups and milk rings.
Say the day is done when the sink is full, but you forget the gloaming.
It signals a pallet to transform these dishes I'm glad I haven't washed yet.
They can wait for me to stargaze.
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A hot wind brings some crows to our house to cry, which they never do. They scream at a starlings nest and against the mist from a sprinkler, so when we go outside to play they carry to the house across the street, and wait in longeur for the wind to send us back inside.
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"That's a-nice ring," he panted. He tasted an indent & worked the tape at his wrists.
The man smiled. "Sapphire's been down the line. Picked offa dead man. One a yours."
The tape gave.
He waited for the ring & caught it under his arm. The man's head kicked & fell limp.
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