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Staircase Tumble

You are the wooden staircase

that I foolishly tried climbing down.

My socks were too clean for your surface;

I slipped and tumbled in a torsion of flailing limbs.

Each impact I bounced down harder

the farther I fell for you.

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Published: Feb 15, 2014
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