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Silence

you press me into the sheets
hold me in your grasp
a wounded animal clawing for life
straining to forget, to feel something
other

conceived like this
my feminine beauty held briefly
unsustainable
a fantasy of woman
of me
to fall before the sun sets

mute music on my tongue
breathless love screams through my teeth
I didn’t think I would lose my words like this
held to your body
your pen inks me into existence

© Sarah Snelling