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your mouth
finds mine
as if by accident

I feel
a lineage awake in you

women who knew
how power moves
with and without force

I learn
how sound leaves me
how obedience
can feel like choice

you take me
I take you
and the night
changes shape

fire,
and the danger of it

we forget
until we are everywhere

the sky still there
as if nothing happened

we watch
we listen
attentive