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tenets
02:37
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In a realm of aphorism
Leaning back into my hearth
Count the ways a silence falls
Millions now, each measured to fit
To sit, to slot neatly
Into our funereal waste paper basket
Amongst barbs and nettles I rest
Not quite asleep but bloodied
Sufficiently
Carve a space out beside me, bed down
For the night at least
Disinvite the cicadas song and try
To steal some sleep
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Scratch a freight into stone
Before it becomes unknowable
A squandered life observing
Torpid reminiscence
Bring forth gifts to the altar
See me worship as my vessel fails
My god I feel myself exhale
A year of breaths held
Like rainclouds or that time of day
Between waking and slipping
Pregnant with promise unfilled
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a linden tree
05:47
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Harvest a low hanging moon
Plucked from an alabaster sky
A celestial heart torn asunder
From the blackest loam
Evoke an absence
My stifled essence
Returning ache long sown, I reap
Behind my consciousness
So my gaze rests on yours
To better not invoke
This incompatibility between
Quickened pulse and slacking breath
Slaking thirst, encroaching death
A single fir bending towards me
Back to the crease in the linen sheet
Where I lay and squint
Too wide to wind the world’s spring
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