RELEASE

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Once the ribbon of breath

Wound through the lung’s branches

Trailed along throat’s passages

Found its way

From the mouth’s arching cathedral

Into the world

As little girl’s

Homespun melody

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Then the ribbon tangled

On other’s criticism

Snarled in shame

Faded in a heap

At the bottom

Of the chest’s deep

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Until thread by thread

It reweaves

Gather’s in wind’s pipes

Breeches the mouths’ dam

Pouring forth once more

A song released