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Body of Water

from Thaw, Freeze, Thaw by paper bee

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my body is water my body is land
where the storms swell at sea and come rolling in
my body is jagged cliffs ships cannot land
a body of water too frigid to swim
it’s not safe in the water but I’m wanted on land
as a body for wanting or as one of them
make study of wanting claim absence from pain
make poems of your body to let yourself in

but a body can’t hold a raging wind a body can’t hold the ocean
tired hands tangled muscles the cold creeping in
through the cracks round the windows as the floor caves in
in the woods there was silence where it should not have been
a body can’t own the trees and the land
I’ll ask the river to make me strong but my fear’s so big how could I be wrong

and I know how my joints feel in the cold
and the world is too big to hold

well the light it dances cross our kitchen floor
and the dust pools in the corners of the room
and your hands are made of many shifting shapes
I try to track their motion as we speak
as if they hold the secrets of your strength
and I would memorize you if I could

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from Thaw, Freeze, Thaw, released May 19, 2023

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