time is slowing
leaking from my body
I can feel it
like a premonition
knowing without understanding
how soon I will be like a stone
on the bottom of a river
anonymous & inanimate
—unseen by the naked eye
july two thousand twenty-three
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that constant desire to escape
from what or to where like an
indescribable determination
constantly changing
eventually evolving into a viral
dream without end
you see yourself in there
chasing fire and rain
one moment flying like an eagle
the next burrowing beneath
the earth like something
you’ve never seen
march two thousand twenty
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