Dead Name
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Write a poem from the point of view of yourself, ten years ago.
They say that objects in the mirror are closer than they appear,
But you are a blind spot filling my entire rear view.
I know the texture of your name like an echo on my tongue.
I don’t hear the same voices you heard
An unfamiliarity in the screaming spaces between our breaths,
I split like a cicada
Tearing free from a skin knit too tightly
Were we ever as one?
Because I feel like I’ve always been shedding you.
