Benign Bliss Burn
Honey light pools
in my collarbone
this slow golden ache,
like swallowing laughter
backwards until my ribs hum.
Someone should bottle this fever,
this sugar-bright bruising
where joy pressed too hard:
tender and electric and mine,
all mine.
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