The Centre

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Lay still,

where the roads cross +

the heat rises in waves and the air sweats.

One in red that spills excess threads like sewing time or running blood,

one in white flowing like a gentle gail. 

They press the night and fold it into dawn, light birthed out of the womb.

All sides are visible at once,  in an instant flashing the length of eternity.

At the end you’ll find me waiting, my grey robes stripped and beating at the bones of love,

weeping trees hang from nooses hung around our throats. We’ll kiss in the mist that swarms

and hugs, squeezing tightly warmed by us. 

I remember -

I saw the moments fall in chasms, I heard the screaming clock ticking backwards slowly into

water. Stagnant. I waited. 

Still, in the end you found me still, laying still, where the roads cross + 

our arms meet, 

the sky in four chambers

thunder beats.

The heat rises in waves and the air sweats, our excess

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