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We have walked the edge where forces oppose and reshape; truth is not the sweeping beacon ahead (it will not rest on us) or the imprints...

Matted wires (ends swiftly cut, the meltdown paused), a flared protest as protections peel back, ions arc to meet their counterparts;...

Open at last to sand and sea and air and light; we returned you (home), and through you we returned me to me. How do you define yourself?...

Shivering on the edge of please don’t look and also don’t look away. What do you view differently now? Who or what makes you want to...

Fractured into gaps, mined between the lines that suggest reality here, night seas there, fingernails slice half moons into echo chamber...

Salted waterfalls (over eons, or a day) erode their alleys, slowed in cohesion until slim grooves at the side guide the fastest way down,...

Fragile hands wrap a fading cable, the final scale of smooth walls that soar their deception, scattered footholds where shards of the...

Sound this alarming contradiction in parchment paper script, ink dipped (I well up), read my part, hold myself still within silvery satin...

An hour (don’t fall back, you’ve come this far) is a round thing, expanding into the full curve of its Self, or perhaps flattened so thin...

Sifted through stacks of glossy time stamped building blocks, shifted till a truth (of sorts) emerges, gathered fabric of decades...

Crumpled inward and low to the ground, wrapped around a core from which all will has fled, systems that slow combustion having failed (or...

Splintered into memories, passed hand in hand (we were with you), permutations shift and flow (pour a drop), hearts looped in ease,...

Trapped in a paper (cut me deep) maze of fear, power stripped from me here, affixed to the wall (merely a pinhole at the center, the...

Movements at once curved and pointed, the lilt of promise in the upswing of a sentence; twirl into cloud of fragrance sharp with earth, a...

Find it in the curious absence of a certain dread, the beat that led to a drop from the edge of the atmosphere where breathing is not...

Pinned in place, shamed stuttered lines named with import, hierarchies of time fashioned of blood and bone or just a chance moment across...

A spark of something seeming mild, a nothing here, until it lands just so and I combust into the silence between us (how sorry I am, what...

Four decades (and some half change or so) I have seen this day and so I give my Self the gift of rest. What’s happening around you right...

Shift split rails that mark time, unravel darkened fabric between memories (threads abandoned in favor of other weights carried), travel...

Tipped into an inversion in the cadence of generations, while the brutal careless flip generalizations about the structures of a life;...

Decades alone slipping through crowded rooms, filled with low pockets of air, spaces between bodies where in the timestamp of a laugh the...

Speak out (that’s enough, the mouth on her) about only that deemed to meet Her standards for polish (uphold the shine), did I seem fine?...

Snap out of the past, tensed against a grizzled corner of memory, but a wisp of rancid smoke seeps from a crack, paneled grooves echo...

You spoke and sounded my own pain, a cascade of spilled shame, the rolling arcs of the ways we break, reach back into the dark to reshape...

A frantic pipsqueak plea against the fringe, shushed and hushed, later praised for every word (don’t speak, not those, not heard, never...

I always understood (I should unlearn, but the stern lesson, less than, remains) that shape equates worth, abstained control elusive,...

Through half-lidded blinds, shift with a twist of tangled strings, slatted shapes, patterns diffused, pull the drapes aside, long-used...

They didn’t trust me then (again my skin, my voice, I screamed) so why would I dream they’d trust me now (nerve endings charred, fires...

Run ragged, pressed to recesses of crafted catacombs, jagged textures (sharp in their own right, far from Their wrongs), still, the echo...

I cannot (still, will not) pretend I didn’t anticipate, dress and wait by windows in late-morning light, dread and delight learning early...

Drape my body backwards over something round, press together the blades that hold my wings, boldly splay my hips, tip my head away and...

Trapped amid wavy quavering mirrors, bouncing ideas between warped reflective surfaces, distorting themselves, recording in cells and...

Pulling my Self from the inside out, shed layers of mortified cells, inches of hair that fell to the floor; my nape a place exposed,...

Peer through this lens, our own jumbled works in progress, lives grown here from the inside out, the outside in, ways I have shaped you...

I cannot have both past and present, a tense unspoken war between Her truths and my own, the line growing clearer, here, as I’ve grown;...

He didn’t mean it that way (how should He have meant it, when He said my ass belonged to Him alone); He said it with love (then why did...

Not good enough (never good enough), the primal refrain sustained, climbs the echo chamber walls, falls in the chasm between Who Loves...

I will not love as You taught me: an excuse for control, abuse of power, debts to be repaid, where instead should be curiosity kissed...

Stale cigar smoke in every velvet cushion, every vinyl tile crevice, pushing into edges of tweed carpet, channels of stairwell paneling;...

How long before I shatter (how long since the first time?), shards fracture, scatter across floors, life forces pour from structures...

Join me in the corner, pressed into the angle where walls merge, solidarity to bear the weight above; I sit in solitary observation, this...

We reach, fingertips ridged to mark each you and me unique, seeking in this chasm of zeroes and ones, minuscule squares by the millions,...

I wince, flinch at a welcomed touch, the space between shoulder and ear, where I hear (His voice), where I hold too much; Or particular...

You abhor (as He did) what You taught (was my fate, failed, to replicate?) Me to be, what threatened Him, mandated My flesh as...

This is My nature: nurtured to stand guard, every cell trained to misfire, to tire My atoms, exhaust each bond, bones shattered,...

Ratty taffeta gauze, chiffon bandage grime sewn over parts of me You demanded I hide; nails no longer bitten raw, I have now the sharps...

I inflict, conflicted over which thing to punish my Self more for, this time. Which not-good-Enough is which, rich with the trodden...

They say Mothers protect their (was I ever) young; instincts of mammals, creatures that seek warmth (how old will I be when the shivering...

Do you want to taste (do You really need that?) something sweet, pulled fresh from the oven (damned if I do), damned if I don’t want just...

You taught me this, by word and omission; never hunger, never feed; never receive (as if anyone would tender this). But still, to...