Scrittura
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Scrittura

Reaching through Bones

A Dank Tale with Questions

if some of them could reach through time …
would you feel the choking tug at the hem of your neckline?
or did you suppose they would be proud of your thoughts
proud of your shows you watch and the rakespills on your lawn?
since we work hard — just look, there’s sweat at the roof of us! — we imagine we are locked away … in that room full of safes
that when we finish the lug in our…

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If you paint for me even one thing which is true, perhaps I’ll be tempted to consider two. I tell tales poetically, someone else needs to set them to music.