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nawkaman

Published: Aug 17, 2015

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another strophe, moonfingers
slipping reveries between points on a globe

a heart can ache without opening

but you

you reach the liquid in my bones-
evaporated hopes, and other twinges;
light struggling to find gaps
in and out of distance

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thesquareroot

Aug 19, 2015

wonderfully succinct - though i almost think i'd like it more if it ended with 'you reach the liquid in my bones' or if you added a final line echoing that rhyme scheme. that cadence hits my ear better, though why concretely i can not say ...

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