Flinch
Trust is a vicious dog
tethered to an umbilical leash, I made you flinch in an angry room air full of alphabet, thunder clap sense my sudden turn, something sharp in my eye and you sweetest of cells thought I would hit you.
Unguarded you stood as painful as hope.
What was that ghost fear I saw in the split second
of your face, that had no echo but I hear it over left no mark but a litter of glass between the reach for you: find a formula, invent a formula, your flinch lives under my skin furious memory in tissue, I am an editor splicing frames backwards forwards, I am a scientist distilling vapour lost in condensation.
Unguarded I stand as painful as hope.
Let me sew name tags on your clothes.
Let me give you back to you.
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