2017-05-03-Flooding1-KATV

 

As years

of protective layers

ignited, then fell

away into ash,

the first

puff of air

from your lips

slipped through

my divisions

like water spilling

over earthen levees,

until I drowned.

 

(April 29, 2018)

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