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Shivering Hearts

Mark Fleury

Shivering hearts
Of heads, split open
By war, reveal children
Huddled in the safety

Of sirens. The building that is
My body is surrounded. I can’t escape.
My brain is saturated
With a wounded shadow.

The bones in my battle
Fatigues unbend like the last
Set of stairs of a fire escape,

To a Ghost in my flat-topped
Head, unhinged, a window

Pane that sets a bird free.

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