funny how I grew up in a cold / house & now i’m scared of it all burning down /
flourishes of radiator heat block sunlight / gyrating shadows on the floor proving
anger is tangible / a temperature a thing a grabbing of flesh a gathering / of body
into one’s own / god reverberates between the tops & bottoms of echoes / do you
hear me god / is in the echoes / oh / my father feared going to sleep because he
might not wake & / then he did so he didn’t / now he’s up /on the mantle charred
crumbs in a vase / walking by i say hello or does it sound more like help / everything
in its place matter holding space / cradling us in unseen swaths / gone / the word
ignites behind my tongue before it / can escape i navigate between ghost / shapes
blocking my way / lean into the heat / into the heat / in heat / i eat / ie / i find
dimension in the sound / weave my fingers throughout / press it to my breastbone
/ atonement is his i / gave it away said here i don’t need it / need it / it / iterations
of i love you unfamiliar like this heat saturate this / room as bent knuckles / melt
into waves of / faith of f/aith / of faith

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