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This short collection of poems is a three part journey that concentrates on the different aspects of love, lust, and simple human existence.
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Breath - Anneliese Retzlaff
ISBN: 978-1-4835660-8-5
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Breath
….Of Life
and Yearning…
Untitled.
A fresh pull on my cigarette - ash floating into shadow. The ethereal fog of injury settles around my neck, my breath coming smooth and long.
I can’t even see you.
It hurts. the gentle crush of leaf on flesh opens you up - a naked pain. A worthy pain.
Feel the chill of the heat - it doesn’t raise the flesh, but sinks into the bone and lingers in the shadow of the mind.
Cracking Skin.
Dry heat and sunlight.
Every laugh took a little more as his skin cracked - widening in craters -
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