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telumne Jan 2021
nocent talon, gruntlefooted thimbledrinker
the time you cut my palm
and those smooth liquids met

i do not miss you, gaumy goblin
you bit too much, you scratched
and all the acid posthumous

now i sit in a seat most high
his bitten fingers in my hair
my twigs in his

drawn and quartered, honey-cut
my diary dog-eared
but not your pages
telumne Jan 2021
hurt me
and i dont mind

calloused hands
a scrape of teeth
a cutting word
a cutting eye
a push
a bruise
rough nails

hurt me
and i dont mind
telumne Jan 2021
in the spaces between seconds
in the pulses of blood
and quiet stutters

somewhere foreign to me
somewhere unseen
unheard

that is where you live,
watching it
the little thing behind my sternum

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