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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.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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