half_asleep_poem_eighty_six
raze these seven-year-old lives
stand strangely blurred.

they still hold like
leads from small horses,
with a pair of feet
perfuming the ground.

theirs was an understanding
of manufacturing.

the mountain's heart gapes
in the name of starting_over,
safe from the wild
when the wild wants in.

this is the year they let
the air out of the balloon.
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