Walking Slowly

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What is this feeling?


A chilling reverberation—

Like skin dissociating from bone

Like the crackle of tendons snapping

under the weight


My shoes begin to pool with blood

Feet, splintered and numb

Lips, split and cracked


Dull ache after dull ache

after dull ache.

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