Emptiness allows entrance and exit
from a space, through a space,
into yet another emptiness.
Walls resist the outside,
hold the inside together,
to create a space. We are
our walls, tracing our lives
with soft fingers searching
for a space to cross through
into something other
than here, like hermit crabs
disparate for a new shell.
(February 4, 2022)
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