BODY

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Collection of bones and sinew

Star stuff and muscle memory

Billions of breaths forgotten

Heaved and sighed without witness

As my twin lungs carry me

Some etch on the panes of memory

Leave the silvered shadow of their image

For sunlight to decipher and time’s haze to trace

The sigh of baby’s sister’s downy scent

The lost scream of brother’s loss

The warmth of love’s first shared inhale

The ocean’s welcome on breezes before sight

The stillness of silence in woods growing dark

The attention paid as this poem is born

Inspiration woven in words

Expiration sets it sail into the world