Christien Gholson

small image of painting: Breathing

Breathing
Kathleen McCloud
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Nightongue

A cave waits. A cacophony
of seals; loud enough
to flay mind
from bone. Gleam-walls
echo. Waves
find the fissure, the hole
that makes itself (Ocean
of stars), so the stone
can open,

open


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