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Time, Teeth & Marrow
by Abel Salas

If time wears a bracelet
Of teeth and marrow
Fused in the ether
Of a distant ash

If sighs unraveled
with spasms of glee
Or the burnished amber
recoiling with iron doubt

If your pain pocked face
Did not define elegance
And the placenta magic
Of your unborn child
drew dragonfly paths
on moon crusted clouds

If my father recalled
his tears and anger
Like a spigot of days
While love was laid
In a vault of desire

If I were no longer here
Amidst paper and beans
Threading love again
Into braids of resolve
Or whippoorwill notes

If years were stations
Between polar stops
And the conveyer belt
Shifted axis and speed
With eyelid precision

I would need you
Want you love you
Free you bless you
Forgive you me us
Them him her
Even more







 


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