warm hands pressed against the ceiling 

our sky, propped up with lustre assumptions

eight months weigh on six days 

the cracks appear in the concrete 

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i press in my fingernails, make a moon on your palm

you make a pool on your pillow, and i make a sound

lost somewhere between 

a songbird and a traitor on the gallows 

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i can't get the words out so you fill the spaces for me

i suggest the inevitable, you rewrite the beginning

skip over the middle – an empty kingfisher  dive all

speed and no grace 

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angels are meant to scare mortals to

death i just thought you were beautiful 

perhaps a death in its own right, 

leaden wax wings and scorching light