#deep

No one survives the hunt
or the transformation
between a juddering kill
that resembles desire
& the notch of recognition

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spiders come from the not-self
leaving a trail of footprints
wet in the rain
to your door
as the dark earth
calls out for its own

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I wait, stay up late,
listen for the creak of
the unquiet spirits
that tell me
to swim upstream
and listen
to what I used to know

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your indent on our bed has gone
the sheets are long since scentless
but the silence, in itself, remains
as another form of argument

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Dusk falls
between the trees
as nightjars and moths
trace lines
of angular momentum
and the sky recedes
to an aspect
of light and shade

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Night fades to early light
with nothing to explain
the silence gathering
between us
but the better man
I meant to be

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