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I was standing on the edge of a meadow

I was standing on the edge of a meadow

when you found me b a c k b e n t…

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May 11, 2019
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I was standing on the edge of a meadow
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when you found me

b a c k b e n t;

resilient to the things
that you could never be.

did you see me there?

more lackluster than an
imagined piece of glass

and no less 
t r a n s p a r e n t.

i was recomposing;

reconstructing an idea
of what i should have

been. you found me

and there was never
any looking back —

never looking past the
mi…

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