Friday, February 14, 2020

The lurch of loneliness



loving you
held me
through the lurch 
of loneliness

—my stomach knew 
before my heart 
that it was already 
mid-fall

and as the rigor-mortis 
muscle of earth
caught me, death 
transmuted my soul.

I am new.
I will not let
affection, again,
awaken too soon.

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