despite nothing (a ghazal)

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I am upstaged by my window plant: alive off nothing /

Dead feet / used sheets / fungal mind / wild nothing


Over a moon I'll take blue light / over sunlight / I'm over

The hot prison city / streets I grind into nothing


Body like an overgrowth / bone like unturned stone /

Mossing over: / old paths / that arrive / at nothing


Then bleed / an epiphany / then discover / propagation /

Hunt my guts / close my eyes / see what /  alights nothing


Controlled burning / excavation / lay my cuttings / in the earth / 

Hear a dark green murmur of life / pray it survives nothing. 


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lots of love 2 shezal for introducing me to this form !!!!

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