The familiar cannot be used as a permanent refuge once the speaker has seen its hidden instability.
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The ordinary is not home. It is a coat on a borrowed peg, a cup with somebody else's heat. I wear it through the field. At the edge, the seams begin to show. I take it off carefully. The cold knows my name.
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A reflective poem and dark alternative folk-rock lyric from the perspective of a child soldier, tracing obedience, hunger, survival and the right to remain human.
A darkness & chaos poem about hinge, tooth, door, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
A dark poem of bathroom, can't, and foresee, holding fear, fracture and survival in view.
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