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the water is deafness |
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pulling a string |
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of silence out of my |
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ears / when she slips |
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under the surface each |
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time I am frozen & |
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moving /she dips/ the |
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water grabs her /this |
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deafness slicing me |
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dragging me naked |
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my body granulates |
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disintegrates & bends |
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/her eyes have |
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changed they have lost |
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sunlight / mine lost |
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to these anxieties |
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of motherhood how |
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tomovequickenough / |
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I can not dive cannot |
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/repeat/ cannot unsee |
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the fingertips pressing |
| her eyes closed / water |
| pulls salt from her |
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mouth & [jump] |
