iridiscente
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language is evolving
I’m going to write you a full-length page
of such-and-such
that begins with a title
and tangles through to end- -
we who struggle with the art
we who struggle with the art
can be the truest teachersbumping the painful, painful
reminders of our
burden
that we coax, plead, bleed
through the birth canal
until finally it cries… … -
unfinished poem
jerked from the page
like a scab from an
unhealed woundI am the unfinished poem
I cry out:
“Finish me,
I am a mangled bloody mess,
encase me in my skin!”people look on the outs…