Cracked Reflections

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My heart flattened painfully

when I saw those eyes staring back at me through the silvery air shimmering before me;

cracks crawl along the pavement behind me;

the gulf tilted like a crater on an axle,

a pendulum of swaying souls screaming bloody murder, digitally flickering, ticking, curling, from circling hands wiping their face.

A convergence in the between on either side, the before and after and in the middle those eyes, behind the silver veil, refracted, the same jaundice as mine

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