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The summer Mom died,
\nI summoned you
\nFrom vulture feathers,
\nFrom discarded cicada husks,
\nFrom car-wrecked armadillos,
\nLegs surrendered to the eternal, burning sky.
\nI summoned you from the hole in my gut
\nWhere my longing leaked out,
\nWhere heat and humidity seeped in.

\n

And you came,
\nYou with legs of the maimed and discarded
\nYou with insect song thrumming in your thorax
\nYou with wings of oiled midnight.
\nYou smelled of my decaying despair,
\nOf the unbearable weight of summer
\nThe heaviness of air which would not rain.

\n

When school started, my classmates mocked
\nThe stench that clung to my pores,
\nThe grit-grime of my neglected childhood.
\nBut the grief which branded me outcast
\nWas my shield, too.
\nBeloved sibling, all I long for is night
\nWhen I crawl into your comforting embrace.
\nIn the hot stink of your darkness,
\nAt last, I am loved.

\n

© 2025 H.V. Patterson

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