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New Love/Doubts
. . . one like a black-and-white movie,
or one from the eighties - with grainy pictures -
almost with a layer of dust covering the film. A narrow,
compressing heartbeat stammering through trails
of scratches across porcelain skin. Black eyebrows, or
perhaps the sort paler than dry ice. Creases in eyelids
in three-dimensional ultrasounds and fine baby hair.
Muted prayers, coagulated thoughts. Reddened whites of
eyes and flushed cheeks (shame, creation, lust; prerequisites of contentment).
Sharp corners or rounded ones with wrinkles - thumb knuckles, surely. Car
horns. Persistent coughing in the night. The sleep of the very meek.
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