I am the bump and grind
the tooth and nail
The beat drums of sweat
and kilograms of blood
My cherished missing parts
Spavined remainders of my sum
Strewn in ex lovers bed sheets
Dismembered in the napes of gods
Harpooned into bloated effigies
Etched into passing cloud calligraphy
Trillions of marooned cast aways
Culled by beaks of magpie and crow
Parsed into molecular sand sculptures
Infinite flecks of a shattered hourglass
Stranded in deserts of memory
Do not break unless in case of…
This moment is the accretion of
millions and millions of fractions
of an emergency realized
This is my journey
To this goddamn place
I pace just behind the edge
Or at least what’s left of me
This, my purgatory
My paradox
My gathering
My reckoning
Me and all of my familiar spirits
We are all refugees here
Souls without bodies
The unsolvable
And the undefined
Restless entities almost cracked
Our fraying strands of sanity
unraveling Zenos to zero
My angel and her suitors
My births, my love
My deaths my pain
My pride my shames
My gain my loss
My spark my dark
Just one thin line away
pleading their cases
Please God
Give me a reason
any reason
to walk away
Solvitur Ambulando
The Tigress Awakens 
Great to see you back and with such a magnificent poem! I sent you an email a few weeks back, not sure if you saw it…
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My apologies. I have been away from online correspondence for a while. I will look for it tonight. Thanks for your kind words!!!
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Ingrid, I couldn’t find your email. I looked back to February. Can you please send it again? My apologies. hexacrow@yahoo.com
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Yes, will do that shortly!
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Done! It will be from ‘experimentsinfiction@protonmail.com’
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Thanks so much for the kind words and the inclusion in the anthropology!!!!!!!! You made my day!!!
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Thank you for agreeing to take part! I will need the text of your poem by email pls 😊
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I agree…another magnificent poem 🙂
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Thank you!!!
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I too am really happy to see you back. Your voice has such power.
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Thank you for your kind words!!!! I’ve been going through a bit of a mental block as of late. It felt nice to at least attempt a poem.
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I hit those blocks too and I think I’ll never be able to write another poem. Then, this week, I wrote two. It’s a relief to know it can still happen.
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