Sept. 2, 2018, 5:14 p.m.

rotation imaginary

wonder systems

how beautiful that words can mean
and incredible that they do not quite;
shoulderblades across the threshold
spine notching the doorframe,
in the moving silence of sleeplessness
eyes look past beyond and tangent
to the futures breath returns from.
 
 
after The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert

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