Cirrus
Alabaster tongue cutting
down my abdomen
I watch as the cirrus clouds
push across periwinkle sky, all limp body girl sweat
They wrap me in a netting made of fingertips
naked trees and outstretched hands
Wrinkles crowd my eyes
When my lips part,
A frog croaks and my lies spill out
Flapping, flapping wings
over what I named a body, named a life
I named her
hush baby sweet child
Going, going, gone
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Submitted by Rainerabinowitz on January 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMN |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 79 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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