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[Knot]

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Hi Seraphim,
not sure the revisions add anything, or are necessary.
The title isn't doing much work.

(Nestled then nests?)

Either bent or askew, not both after lightening-struck.

(Is there a reason for 'toasted' rather than 'buttered'?)

Just food for thought.


in the wake/crumbs


After the catastrophe I sat alone
in strained communion
with my father; chewing toasted pain
de mie, choking down bottles
of an inexpensive wine, mouthling
a few prayers for comfort

I woke early the next morning,
swaddled in a dusty quilt,
scrunched atop my window seat.
The oak outside was lightning-struck
- pillar split to roots, limbs rent.
Sparrows would not return to their nests ;
I imagine it no longer felt like home.


Best, Knot.

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