The Permanent Marker of Memory Webs

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It was sometime in the morning

early enough to still be dark

shadows painted in the room

with paint brushes made from silence

blended with my breaths

I was awake enough to hear

my heart blinking in my chest

batting it’s eyelashes

with every breath I took

I was suddenly aware of the feeling

opening up within me

an egg sac bursting and sending

little spiders racing through me

spinning memory webs

It was sometime in the night

early enough to still be light

sunset painted in the sky

with paint brushes made from echoes

blended with our breaths

she looked at me

with eyes like clipped wings

and a voice like broken guitar strings

she was standing in the streetlight

it was dark enough to see

her lips moving and making words

her words making tears condensate

on her bottom eyelashes

her face splashed

with a sorry red

her eyes a sorry blue

as she wrote the words

“it’s over”

on my skin

and it wasn’t until later that I noticed

it was written in permanent marker.

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