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The Heat

from Thaw, Freeze, Thaw by paper bee

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I’ll pick wild flowers for my love as often as I can
in hopes she sees I see she’s wild and beautiful as them
it’s hard to see from where we stand anything but an end
the howling does come in
the heat is wide and the cold is thin

the heat of these drives like the heavy breathing of giants
maps tangled with wires held taught each year of my life
oh there’s nothing like the feeling when you don’t sleep for two nights
and your body is a vessel or a beacon in the night
for ships to break themselves upon if you can’t keep the light
when you give your words so honestly the emptiness ignites
till your heart becomes expected and you’re filled with strangers’ desires
and we drive

the sweet scent of fire oh I wanted it to make me cry
it tugs at desires on the sweat of my lover who died
it recalls the sinking hollow left when someone leaves your life
and I wish to meet it like a dam releasing in the fading light
we ran across those rocks like we were running for our lives
but when the floodgates opened it was not the river’s full might
suspended on those wires I thought I might glimpse something whole
but it turns out they were loosely tangled even as time slows
but I’ll still try

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

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