overwinter
raze in the woodland of your eyes,
bellflowers and bee balm
build aperture and diaphragm
from serrated leaves,
masking the milk that we are,
stirred by the mouths of moths
with parchment paper forewings.
all the good words
are in the unspent ink
that lines the lips
of the cruelest months we've known.
we kiss each other clean
to cook this homestead
from the inside out.
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from