After "Fugue" by Lily Hoang

It's high time our
bones started to sing aloud. (Sudeep Sen)

Everything that lives is holy. (William Blake)

You are a drought that is cured. You are a body sponging back your life. (CAConrad)

I want to hold time in my fists, I want to remember this. (Lily Hoang)

As she thinks about murder, nobody objects to a woman thinking. (Melissa Febos)

Mothers are entry and exit. (Ingrid Rojas Contreras)

My mother's colon is the problem. A decade of remission, and it is still in the present tense. (Lily Honag)

I have
    a gun and they
        left theirs
            at home. (CAConrad)

There is no blood left now. (Sudeep Sen)

I am thick with it. (Melissa Febos)

but still you
order another table
as though it's tables
between us and 
not everything else (CAConrad)

the silence will not empty
the sea
of its leaves. (Sudeep Sen)

"This is what a dead person looks like."
"That's so scary!"
"They never blink."

Winter, deep in my bones. (Lily Hoang)

Rock-bottom is the bottom of the rocks, the underbelly that rarely gets turned over; but when it does, I am the spider that scurries from daylight to find another place to hide (Terry Tempest Williams)

At the end of this sentence, rain will begin. (Sudeep Sen)

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