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Rituals (2021)


I want to read at night and remember to blow out candles

I want to know how to slow my breath without inhaling smoke

I want to be soft and pink and surrounded by other things

(soft and pink).


I want this,

And I want myself, back.


The best parts of me are still inside, I think, a great pearl growing.

Soon, amidst all this pain, my pearl will grow too big for its shell

I want this pearl to be the thing that unravels me.