in_the_dark_i_was
raze
a
stray
spark
without
tinder
to
touch
,
and
so
the
heat
i
held
had
nowhere
to
go
but
down
and
around
and
into
the
cotton
that
covered
me
while
i
bottled
, ablaze,
this
image
of
us
:
a
bundle
of
banked coals, cared
for
and
cooled
in
the
kiln
of
each
other's
arms
.
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what's it to you?
who
go
blather
from