plaza()

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sky.breaking(over.plaza);
four.selves(gate.stumbled);
overcast.flags(sequence.error);

choices.reduced(to.one);
void.lures(dirt.intersection);
shovel.branded(grave);
platter.deals(lie-flavoured.debris);

offensive.cartilage(notches.carved);
drained(fermented.words);
ghost.limb(throat-hooked);
native.to(warning.flare);

i.own.this(place);

⸻

copious.counter(moulds.shame);
blame;
button.undone(raw.gristle);

regimen;
wash.away(stares);

fridge.starves(desired.parts);
famine.fed(femininity);

knees.weeding(concrete.floor);
pruned.missing(minutes);
caked.in(oil&tyre);
smouldered.bloom(sealed);
sulphured.fragrant(mire);

eyes.prosecuted(begging.for.ordinary);
climbing(my.ceiling);
this.is.real;

⸻

(pain)killers.stutter;
cheek.held(for.later);
mouth.speaks(of.prego);
snitch.jagged(hedonistic.thread);
seventeen.stitches(won’t.shut.it.down);

leaving(writes.itself);

⸻

lopsided.horizon(past.cortex);
pity.jewel(over.soiled.nail);
devotional.lie(no.precision);
house.always(wins);

teeth.grinding(genetic.heirloom);
jaw.inheritance;
grape-stained(discounted.incisors);
chair.chain(took.its.toll);

pariah.dog;
trips(at.doorstep);
bipolar(bites&humps);
nulls.culpa;

tail.wiggling;
poisoned(air);
collar.ripped(unleashed);
burning.fracture(unnoticed);

borrowed.fumes(on.persian.rugs);
elasticated.skin(wallpapered.nightstand);
fury.smashed(my.drawers);
pulse.same(dull.hammer);

this.is.real;

⸻

shovel.amputates(me.soft);
gore.soaked(cynicism.plasma);
ripe.shedding;

donation.listed(scraps.refused.burial);
meat&gravity(scream.repentance);
luggage.filled(guilt&vital.research);

you.won’t.fix(my.brows);

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[inspo: sacred.geometries(of.wounding); Chapel - Part 2 by Bertold Lagaro 2026]

[image credit: Last Year at Marienbad 1961; Tails With A Tale by Elliott Erwitt 1974]