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aching to the marrow MAG
April 7, 2016
if you wrap silence around yourself
like a coma
until you fossilize deep within
the chest cavity of night,
you may hear
the earth sigh barrenly
into the sky’s broken chest
black and blue and stitched with stars
aching to the marrow.
© Nicole B., Newcastle, WA
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