Day 207: The Girl’s Got Heart

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little red circles in long red lines
beat in and out along her spine

there’s a tightness now
where absence lived
there’s a taking now
where she’d usually give

give in

give out

outlive fear

outlive doubt

no
stop
red
stop
throb
stop
pulse
·
go
strong
breathe
long
life’s
impulse

to live.
to keep on
living.

and if not in flesh
then in word and song

for all that she is
is all that belongs –
it’s more than life-long –

and it seeps into sound
like blood-let drop-lets seeded in the ground.

beat
stop
red
stop
pulse
stop

breathe

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