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falls like the sound of a glass bell
gathering in cupped hands slowly/yet
covers the melting heat of crinkled palms
until cold blankets/tucks in
fingertips with pinprick kisses
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reflects strangers/horizons
standing at a distance
the mirror seems to move faster/to anticipate
knowing/seems more like a voice than its echo
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mother hand/arm reaching behind infant back
wide fingers cradling head/new shoot arms move unsteadily
like a voice learning a melody/descant
belly a solitary moon above the bath water
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This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.
over-white photograph/afternoon/illuminated apron
bleached bone sleeve/hand to pewter pot
shaped like a head-sized mug
hand open/holding back/as if catching hilltop winds
fingers look (are) accidental on handle
shadow-checked girl/dotted dress/fingertips on countertop
nostalgia anti pirate graphic [https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1081627664932159620/1148820475057815553/anti_pirate_graphic_-_walking_in_sky_-_poetry_vol_1_-_white.png]
too many pockets/not enough clothes that fit
pocket full/seams broken/pulling apart from top
walking from room to scattered room/in search
of tiny objects/picking them up/picking them up
entering doorways/glancing/fingers brushing wall
barely/leaving again
boy behind a curtain/laughs/pulls the fabric away
emerging tooth grin/curtain again
forget [https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1081627664932159620/1148820475057815553/anti_pirate_graphic_-_walking_in_sky_-_poetry_vol_1_-_white.png]
woman/thinned beyond breath/mouth ajar
waiting to be closed/eyes closed
body dissolved beneath shadow blankets
head in a mist of hair/everything grey and lilac pale
soft/younger in stillness
two feet/bottoms up/crisscrosses/Xs that spirits cannot
cross/away/red bisecting/sewn in the hollow
of the center of the sole
- Kat Isacson
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