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In the Body’s Ghetto

A.J. Huffman

Your blood has turned to dust
and clogged your heart.
Now it wants mine.
I can feel it beating my skin.
Fighting my veins.
It wants me
to burn with its fire.
But I cannot.
My hands are too dead.
They cannot manage that kind of light.
They turn back
to you instead.
Burying themselves —
burying me —
in the shallow darkness
of your shadow.

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