Philia (Broken Streets)

By AMY BECKER

Who lives

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you                       others

fragmented I                                                      of shadow

dust,                     perpendicular streets

tangent lines

Click clack                                    (broken streets;

these are                  sounds.)                    impossible,

distorted

notes                                    descend, ascend                                    margins

Soma

Bleeding out,     rapids

wrong directions   coagulate

(only for you)                                    promise

the veins of man run dry,

petrify.

our burden.

(click clack)    unison or shame

no bounds.