if ever
if ever found within a wood
not crumbs be used but string of gold
silver mirrors better stone best cruel fathers
of those many half sisters mine
break the head and let out intelligence
grown within thunder the thing will push on
find herself among those so much older
she knows but she doesn't Know
her dearest brother joins her in arms
and they fight for those who try
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polynym
nonbinary they/them en/fr got more names, too, but more than two in the same slot seems excessive. i write rambley poems without capitalization. (well, mostly without capitalization) usually no rhyme scheme but a lot of allusion. its vauge! i like it that way! i don't like that i can't use line breaks here.
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