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vixengrl

(2,686 posts)
Mon Dec 4, 2023, 02:38 AM Dec 2023

What Grabs You

Skeletal fingers,

chalky

in the dying brine

clutch at the water:

whited columns

in a graveyard to be.

We ignore those clutching hands

heedlessly.

They say all that has touched

the tide

some time

will be claimed

by the tide

again, someday--

and I know it's true

however far inland

you try to

get away.

What made you

grabs you in

the end.

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