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If You Missed Open Mic Night

I read this new poem at this month’s open mic poetry reading event at Dog With Two Tails. It was first written at an ŌWL session in June. Prompt via Eliana Gray. I edited a lil bit in the three days following and then this is what came out.

swallow her breath
cry her water
her sound washes your face
a deep cold blue
still surface
her tongue laps at everything
bright lupins howling at your feet
breathe and swallow at once
a lump fell into your throat
a stone fell into her maw
deep, cold, blue
ripples spread wide
wider   and                  wider
leaving emptiness behind
bright lupins howling
as your feet start to rust
you fall into her
blue, still deep
a lump released
spheres of air rise to the surface

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