A contemporary poem about anatomy after the heat, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Summer enters the body without permission. A bright insect finds the tender seam. Heat makes a battlefield of the ordinary. I name each wound and lose the map. By evening, the fever has gone quiet. The season keeps what it started.
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A dark poem of bathroom, can't, and foresee, holding fear, fracture and survival in view.
A dark poem of moments, cherished, and now, holding fear, fracture and survival in view.
A dark poem of meridian, passes, and sun, holding fear, fracture and survival in view.
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