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Reflex Theory

The body draws from memory and shifts its full weight unto the day. I draw you close to me proximity through unnamed memories as if today were yesterday. I draw you at a distance through memories that have become subtitled photography. The day is full of this balance. My body is drawing from memory. The full day is heavy in its totality but these unnamed memories are weightless—an unfinished count of eyelashes 86,400 seconds of weightless day. 1440 minutes of weightless words telling stories in the 1st person I was you. The balance is coy A shift in either direction and it will swallow me whole. I draw on your memory fully through the weight of the day.

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