webbed()

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white.silk.disheveled;
window.cracked;
fumes.curl(in);
he.checks.for(pulse.on.my.neck);
bent.like.question_mark;
split_on.maybe;

his.sweet.fever.eyes;
hands.set(honest);
alley.of.moles(miscounted);

velcro.fingers.test
my.ice_cubed.ego;
water.drips;
floor.warping;

web.tangled;
close_enough(to.infect);

tumult.crawls(through.skin);
blood.&.bone—
insistent.foraging
for.ruin.within;

teeth.leave(bruised_script);
jaw.pressure.calibrates(me);
rewrite(my.code);
shields.deployed;

audio.compressed;
spiders.caged(behind.teeth);
venom.warming;

< oblivious
< unarmed

he.measures(my.spine);
stretched.nearly_cracked;
mouth.cobwebbed;
calculating(what.to.spare);

< revolting

i’m.already(her);
barely.nine;
taught_to.keep_still;
spider.leashed;

i.peel(my.face(open));

riot;
too_loud;
too_urgent;

temperature.drop;
sync.terminated;
i.mop(the.floor);

blistered;
laminated;

fingers.claw(knots.from.air);
spiders.settle;

i.remain;
solidified;

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[image.credit: A.F. Vandevorst, 2007]