Through Nantes

hot sweet breath on tense muscle
flexing fingertips pulsed all bluey
liquidity seeking new quick form
opening teased seeping coves
scratch scores of eager relief
pink rosy bruising geography
mapping a contour pressure
caressing crackling storms
that splice granite arteries
shear blunt battled barbs
for compromised hearts
the raved new interlude
scatters old reasoning
to a gold wonderlust
free an aged misery
that left numbness
dancing through
a blackened life
for many years
they wilt now
a falling leaf
wet by tear
open vein
crushed
futures
bound
from
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