these wounds

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o trembling hands

will you stay perched

by my side as flesh-licking

family whisks by the window


please god


let this rumbling car

exhaust cup my mouth

i don't want to sob


these trees are melting

into images of her carcass

contorting like a wave


while the wind swallows

ashes of her piercing eyes

once so alive and so awake

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