i would know

by

Crystal Dawn Allen

Yes, I would know the darkness and the light together, breathing if as one, teething through each other's soft young skins.

And I would know the dancing shadows, flickering candles inverted, hushes of transparent velvet

thrown over walls, and curtains, and beds, and tables and faces and fields, heaving and weaving through things that are neither/or, scattering at the dawn and chasing/embracing the twilight.

I would know the bones within the kingfisher, the mountain, the sky, the sea. I would know the order of all its organs, and weigh their usefulness, their significance, arriving at the same conclusion each time.

These are dark ages, fire and ice collapsed and inverted, graves turned inside out and living death alive, souls like negatives.

To laugh. To cry. Rejoicing in the darkroom.

I would know the ebb and the flow, and the moons that command you; I would know the secrets and the dwelling places of your radiant mind.

Yes, I would know you fully, and come to be fully known.

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by: Francis Duggan
from: Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia

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