There was one last communion<\/p>\n
stretched thin between us, razor-fine<\/p>\n
tightwire which when severed,<\/p>\n
would crumble whole cities of dreams.<\/p>\n
Hot salty tears tracked peach cheeks<\/p>\n
and words frozen in my heart,<\/p>\n
unable to speak for fear of saying the wrong words<\/p>\n
at the right time.<\/p>\n
And we offered meager excuses<\/p>\n
why this abrupt slice of pain<\/p>\n
would be a healing gash,<\/p>\n
but we knew the scar would knit<\/p>\n
and knot to a complicated infectious<\/p>\n
poisoning of the blood,<\/p>\n
fever of the soul,<\/p>\n
even as now I still tap<\/p>\n
that agonizing wire of<\/p>\n
fractured human connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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