dog_eared
ovenbird If I were a book I would invite
you to write
in the margins. I would ask
you to dip
feather tips
in ink and
leave no page untouched. I want
your words to define all my edges,
the loops and curls
of your hand adorning
the place where self
meets other.

When I flip through
my own pages I want to see
the splashed and blotted
evidence of you
on every one. I’m not meant
to be kept pristine.
Break my spine,
dog-ear all my corners,
let the glue that binds me
crumble to dust
in your hands, start again
until you know me
by heart.
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from