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[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by E. E.… | Poetry Magazine
If I am a rib, let me be the one closest to your heart–
synchrony was the only calligraphy they had in Eden.
I follow you around with my pen tip wet,
like a cat stalks little flying things and bits of Styrofoam.
Daisy Alioto added
Hers is a heaviness that soothes.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Let us agree
for now
that we will not say
the breaking
makes us stronger
or that it is better
to have this pain
than to have done
without this love.
Let us promise
we will not
tell ourselves
time will heal
the wound,
when every day
our waking
opens it anew.
Perhaps for now
it can be enough
to simply marvel
at the mystery
of ho
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sari added
Thou wert with me, but I was not with Thee.