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I Could Write Words

that pause a tears tumbling or words that gods would rip from reality for none to repeat words that crumble under winds slip Yet i could write of eyeless Yeti's words that unfurl like a water dipped petal words of fear like a shadowed figures inhuman smile greeting from the top of the stairs words planely plain i always sit at the back of the plane ever heard of one reversing into a mountain with a whip of my wrist turn sword into words Words that peer from beneath tear stained fingertips as another blow lands next to my ear S --w -a n ---n --i ---n----------n-----k----n --g and s-----a-----i-----g into lines as the mist just misses the ink black still before the grey and the numb give birth to the static

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Date: 3/29/2022 9:51:00 AM
I like much of your poem and enjoyed the free-flowing and inventive imagism.
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Christopher Quigley
Date: 4/1/2022 11:26:00 AM
Thank you

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