Fossilize my heart
in a sticky Southern summer
Shiver and sweat an uncertain future
103 degrees (With heat index?)
I can’t tell if it’s my fever
or if the hills are undulating
Freeing themselves of wrinkles
like hanging bedsheets
As they sway, I brace myself
Close my eyes to the dance
Still each painful breath,
seal every beat in amber
May 24, 2018
May 24, 2018 at 8:41 PM UTC
Fossilize my heart
in a sticky Southern summer
Shiver and sweat an uncertain future
103 degrees (With heat index?)
I can’t tell if it’s my fever
or if the hills are undulating
Freeing themselves of wrinkles
like hanging bedsheets
As they sway, I brace myself
Close my eyes to the dance
Still each painful breath,
seal every beat in amber
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