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  • George Cassidy Payne

I awoke in the belly of a poem

Posted on February 21, 2020February 17, 2020by Teahouse

no one is talking about, not since I stopped believingin the power of words to give birth to my dreams.  Like Jonah. Swallowed. Smellinglike krill slime sticking to thewalls of a soft, rubbery bladder,all I can see is the darkness  of my ignorance. I grope aroundlike a beetle turned on its shell.  spinning around the stainless floorboard. 

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