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Little Marble Kisses

III.

how to be

a remedy

            now only an elegy

an absorption

            into the subordination

            of                     self

                                                this occupation of the self

                                                            by the self

the unrelenting

unforgiving

            fractals

                        of death

            in each life

which linger through

                        their passage

            remain

                        not in the self

            but in the other

tonight dispelled

            with them

                        as they depart

            the plane we’re so viscerally

                                    occupied

                        together

                                    alone

            Shaded by experience

                        illuminated with denial

of that which cannot

            serve

                   any longer

finding without searching

            the answer

                        one never sought.

believing it to be

            what one wants

                                    knowing

            instead

                        it is the need.

Mote it be.

© 2023 by Anna Marie Ray

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