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A quick thoracotomy


I open my chest to the forest of bones

Pulsing vines, foliage thick and wending

Up the bowing rows of white

 

How long 'til I find its center

The beating mass where answers lie hewn in the muscle

Fiber throne seated in the chambered marrow

 

When all I seek is exhaled from the cavity

As the forest bends on itself, entombed once more

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