I dedicate this to you,
but first,
fire
-scorch the earth collected
blow out the flame,
watch, inhale, let go
the whispers reach heavenward,
the scent broadens through the space,
-and with it,
the taste of
the first painful bite
an outline traced
as plumes of smoke
recreate your face
a memory,
twirls, salutes
twists into nothingness
let go
snakes across my collar bone,
knotting into my chest,
branching across the bridge of my nose
to aggravate my eyelashes
let go
cascades,
diving, colliding this;
sorrow swirls,
taut and flaring,
a maelstrom uprooting
let go
watch them narrow, eddy
watch them divide,
forked fingers, fearful
bent knuckles, twisting,
tapping the vaporous
scratching
until dissolution
watch, inhale, let go.
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