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I rub ice cubes on my face in the morning
when it is swollen from soy sauce
or bad dreams or no sleep. The water beneath
my skin is thick like jelly, yellow & responsive
to touch. I lose track of the bones. I want the
It’s one year later & I still feel you on my shoulders,
breathing vulnerability onto my tender neck.
Two bodies wrapped in desire,
like silver paper, on Christmas.
We breathe each other & call it air.
You say survival, I say
how everything had a name in the tender white light
After Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Mother, tell me about the child in your womb.
