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stripped down to my savage latticed bone where foxfire blooms from the damp marrow— i am the blight perhaps it is mercy to know when your roots only know how to strangle forgive my bleeding mycelium heart climbing wild toward a buried jaw it tries to speak through the molder i am the rot i am the ruin and i cannot bear to bury us both a slow mercy for the soil
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May 22
May 22, 2026 at 7:21 PM UTC
A Slow Mercy
stripped down to my savage latticed bone where foxfire blooms from the damp marrow— i am the blight perhaps it is mercy to know when your roots only know how to strangle forgive my bleeding mycelium heart climbing wild toward a buried jaw it tries to speak through the molder i am the rot i am the ruin and i cannot bear to bury us both a slow mercy for the soil
AmyC
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23/F/Missouri
May 22
May 22, 2026 at 7:21 PM UTC
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