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Poetry: Unspoken thoughts

YES

or:
maybe just a little

(only for the space of one betrayal-)

your fists oddly
stamped

potential hazards
pretty but not beautiful
finally in focus
or close enough to reach out and-

your hands
folded neatly and put away
odd
hard
finally slipping into some semblance of recognition

your pattern of breathing
crunches like glass across this divide
a gulf
a canyon
an eternity

secondhand
touch felt only as gasps
pretty but not
beautiful.

(rough knuckled)



there is a slight buckling in the frame of things

small tremors
watching



only from the corners of rooms.

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