✹ ETCHINGS/IMPRINT ✹

✴ If I etched every word and
every word frozen cold on your shoulder,
infiltrating our pining flesh,
peeling papermarks from every crevice—

✺ I’ll be right here.

❋ a dull imprint on the ground.

✸ An artifact,
or tangent.

✺ I can’t hate you…

❋ I can’t hate you…

✸ If you come again,
I will bathe in your lukewarm glow.

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