Apart

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Your fingers are roots grown curled into soil

Your gnarled joints are knuckled under rocks and bark

Your chlorophyll-flushed cheeks are lifted towards the light

Which sinks through your blue-green outstretched veins

Your eyelids look so thin when they’re closed like that.

Why won’t you look at me?

Why so

still?

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