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here i am, in the arms of time,
thinking of caricatures of nothingness.

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and it is true, to touch water this consciously
is to be touched by a mother pulsing with the pulse of dreams that sank with paperboats

I am not close to ending, yet, but I listen 

for what speaks to me without voice; violence; 

God

“Before now, I used to think death was the
nothing every other thing returns to,
but it’s safer, I suppose, to learn by practice.”

“What becomes of the soil you walk upon;
When time is not as flat nor as straight
but it unfolds regardless?”

“What if I am the man who does the hurting?
He too stalks my mother’s songs.
He is first father like the woman is first mother.
I am the hand choking my glittered heart.
I am the one who undos the skull’s seams,
teeter towards the great reveal,
madwoman—”

“I wonder why people can’t see beauty
without wanting to put a dagger in it.
Don’t be afraid is the line used
when someone carries the intent of harming.”

“every god has its own song, its own dance, its own ritual:
a warlord swallows a pinch of fire, spits a volume of fury”