I’m lost. You look at me, with wide bulging eyes, Bones like a bird, Folded up on itself. I’m lost. I move you forward To listen to your back, Careful not to Break the wing. I’m lost. You grip my hand, I let you for a moment, Its irregular pulse slinking away Beneath the tendons. I’m lost. In your mind you walk Down corridors ever darker, Sometimes you stop at a room That seems familiar. I’m lost. At the beginning Your mother held you as you walked Now only fleeting memory Holds you to yourself. …
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I lay my hand as lovers have, a play of affectation, My fingers fit the ribs, sinew on sinew, skin on skin alone, You are different to me, just words sequestered, In dusty tomes; life scaffolded in ink like the lung by bone. Here is the liver, dull, cage-cooped and silent, Seeing fingers, open…
