don't.ask()

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pretty(with.prescription);
crescent.folded(moon.replica);
sky.ceiling(pixelated);
hands.braided(in.prayer);
you.don’t(let.go);

abdomen.twisted(inversion.suspended);
milk.curtain(billows.inwards);
emulating(breeze.profanities);

elusions.indistinguishable(of.flight);
inflamed(biochemical.constitution);
eyes.adjust(commanded.modesty);
bearing.weight(intertwined);
dim.shame(retracting);

pass(subliminal.chlorine);
limbs.wash(themselves.blue);
cross.arm(bent.downwards);
wall.guarded;
isolated;
out.of.favour;

unmade.stimulus;
salacious.allegiance;
default.mode(adrift);
exhale.unwilling(conditions);
god.left(this.house);
two.nights.ago;

fibonacci.hand(unreliable);
selfish.harvest(of.scent);
neck.pinned(cerebellum);
trying.heavy(me.into.carpet);

conscience.slippery(harnessed);

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faith.swaying(weaker.now);
third.high(rolling);
inhaled(smaller.litanies);
candlelit.vapour(dazzling);

we.do.not(eat.here);

limbs.curse(inconvenience);
shoulder.to.shoulder(unnerved);
i.don’t.tell;
you.don’t.ask;

napalm.gown(on.swivel.chair);
burning.blush;
spin.digestive;

cross.writhe(curled);
overdosed(by.association);
nothing.here(left.to.burn);

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[photo.credit: Alexander Krivitskiy, 2019]