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Goosebumps

i’ve goosebumps
   bold and shrill
      pinpoints that peak

my arms once relaxed
   and warm
but shadows reveal
boy and father silhouettes 

alongside the jagged fireplace stone
and a           creaking uttered
in the bowels of the floor       underneath.

   i’ve goosebumps
      bold and shrill
         pinpoints that peak

i slowly
breathe
an icy breath
as if
room temperature’s
dropped
                            below freezing.

         i’ve goosebumps
           bold and shrill
              pinpoints that peak

recalling
how my cousin
saw

the               chair
                       rocking
with                     nobody there.

                  i’ve goosebumps
              bold and shrill
  pinpoints that peak

but from my innermost place,
                i slap myself
      a couple times:
‘put your big girl panties on’

i turn up the lights
    *broadway on steroids*

and call down peace.
for though i can believe in such things,
      my greater belief
supersedes.

my arms
are once again warm —
   flesh and blood
prevails!

11/6/2019
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