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Black Hole Love

grab your pail, we'll clean the sea fetch a comb to coiff the sand don't fall for burning cities, to be eternalized as a pinnacle of table salt pinch me, porfa! looking up/down—that's insurance perilous looking back psychics looking forward pronouncing words over tomorrow's world should you be dissolved by hands furious at future-telling feats well, you would have seen it coming... stay simple pick peppers plant cotton gin it for reason latent scars from childhood rashes gore marks from hell's boar love borrows until you're vexed, next blue how to hold love comprehend it neuter it before panthers track and eat your tears extinguish glimpses of stars, rays, and beams and death, ghostsongs, stones become fabrics of a seamless void traffic runs past the burial ridge along my way but I went slow this commute appearing to me was myself a cameo in crying fields wearing pails, combs, spades, and boots an element of wind stirred icy, traceless talking in the sense of men asleep said some things couldn't be offered: dust bunny hearts no photographs no epitaphs no salt

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Date: 7/17/2025 7:21:00 AM
Fascinating poetry. I see you missed the contest. It filled up more quickly than I expected. You're always coming from an interesting perspective
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Trina Layne
Date: 7/17/2025 8:54:00 AM
Yes, I did. That happens. Thank you for your kind feedback. Have a great day, Tom!
Date: 7/16/2025 11:16:00 PM
Well composed. Blessings
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Trina Layne
Date: 7/17/2025 8:55:00 AM
Thank you, Anisha :)

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