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welcoming as a word of art,
soothe is a term, and soothe makes a noise — dance in the dark is no better
anesthetize, and not that you cannot goddess, knowing how much you care
I sits under the #re —
in the middle of morning bath you might feel the heart ache as if one were a baby
when you step into the room you will hear your hair rise, your nose clack
hear your voice, and soothe with your gaze —
upon crowns of blood sewn into tusk tassels
gules and sores stained green with blood
(esh splinters of bones; the broken neck and brain in right hand
dagger in left; a blade that can move tides, can only move while still in use— i
the knife, in hand and weapon at hip.
a blade that can move like tides blade to tip of my heart,
a blade—
the tides;