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Apocalypse fireworks

I tried to write a poem

The way I always do

Last second

First minute after the count

always

Late bloomer

to school

to the party

the office

So I seek to resurrect myself

Submit to the barely on time

Sunrises

Circadian clocks and their rhythms

I submit to my body

Lay down in my biology

Look into the transpiration made breath

I submit

In the nick of time

To rising up

The weaving through

The vining in

The hyphal hyphenate hugging

Transformation happens in the offset hours

I see a beach. Stretching

reflecting into the ocean

like Christmas in April

tide pools dazzling with the lights

orange and blue moon

Drifting in silence

Save for the roar and the fills

Shapes carved in the sand

Dazzling

Self dreamt into sand

Dreams as trees

Drawn up into the lungs

Hallelujah

#National Poetry Month

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Mariette Papic
Mariette Papic

Written by Mariette Papic

Creative Technologist. Documentarian. Author. Apocalypse rider. Regeneration is all we have now.

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