on_christmas_day
raze there is no snow to
decorate the dirt.

sirens wail and
whine like cold
dogs, fenced in
and afraid of what
their eyes can't find.

planes fail to
fall from the sky,
though i shoot them
all with the firearm
i've forged from my
most faithful finger.

we are made of water,
you and i, and through
the vast expanse of
all we are, we swim
to the boundless shore
of each other's arms
so we can sigh: this
is what home feels like.
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what's it to you?
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