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under the
canopy stars frescos
we lie interlaced
inhale red and exhale
blurred into your body
yet hardly dared touch while
gabriel pierces a woman
’s maroon heart with a feather
his damaged wings holy patched with lime plaster
sweat drops crawl insects
first time
that anyone held me like i was a girl
and done so with a smile
cupping me up like a faraway moon
chests close batter headed vibrations
dudududum dudududum
you slur your incisors into my thumbtip
and stay there for aeons
drooling with goosebumps
and we don’t get closer
just listen to
soft
cracking of eggshells
the world is our hatchling
frozen and far
away like a moon

i’m looking at you from inside of the wound