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Rivulets

Rivulets running over your eyes Watering cascade across moist turned earth To drink you, taste you, everyday like this Always

She Held the Scales Until Her Fingers Bled

Constantly negotiating the balance, insisting upon extremes She held the scales, muscles burning with exhaustion Internal dissonance is a resounding off-timbre clash in the chambers of her heart Brass gripped in trembling, white knuckle control, opposing sides that would never touch The stars revolved here, the sun rose and set here, seasons turned on the axis of this woman and her scales Until the day, with a gut-filled sigh, her fingers finally bled an inch too much Gulf in her heart became just too loud to bear The stars kept moving, the sun rose and set, seasons turned on their axis when she set down the scales Opposing sides touched, crept together like desperate lovers, met somewhere in the middle, in the middle of her Then she knew silence Then she knew peace

Peeling

layer by layer the skull in the skin rolled away from itself leaving fresh flesh beneath breathing in the sun