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Rabbit Room
02:31
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I STARED INTO THE BACK OF THE ROOM
IT WAS COVERED IN A MILKY HAZE
A LAMP ON THE MIDDLE OF AN OAK TABLE
HAD A 60 WATT BULB THAT PRODUCED 800 LUMENS OF LIGHT
DIFFUSED BY A LEOPARD SKIN LAMPSHADE
RATED FOR INDOOR USE ONLY
AND I COULD NOT SEE ANYTHING
I STARED INTO THE BACK OF THE ROOM
AND MOVED MY EYES TO THE DOOR
I LOOKED DOWN AND RIGHT WHERE THE CARPET MET THE IMITATION PERGO FLOORING
THERE WAS A BROWN AND WHITE BUNNY RABBIT
STANDING ON ITS BACK LEGS.
I COCKED MY HEAD AND IT DID THE SAME
SHE LOOKED AT ME AND SAID
“YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE THIS ROOM.”
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EACH DECISION WOULD HAVE BROUGHT ME HERE
THE EARTH FOLDS IN ON ITSELF
PAST AND PRESENT NEEDED
LITHIFIED INTO FUTURE REALITIES
I WOULD CHANGE EVERYTHING
BUT IT WILL NOT CHANGE ANYTHING
THE SAME STARS WILL SHINE AT NIGHT
THE SAME SUN WILL RISE IN THE MORNING
BLOOD WILL CALL OUT FROM THE EARTH
WATER WILL BREAK
AND NEW MOTHERS WILL WRITHE IN PAIN
WHILE THE CHORUS CHANTS
THERE IS NO MORTAL WHO SHALL TURN UNHEARD THEIR LIFE’S COURSE TO AN END NOW MARRED
THERE IS TROUBLE HERE
THERE IS MORE TO COME
*** Elements borrowed from Aeschylus (523 BC - 456 BC).
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In our apartment
In rare moments
Clouds break
Light falls
And house plants
Make shapes
Across the floor
Or swooping crows
Shade us
But little else changes
We burn lavender candles
We peel fruit and eggs and drink coffee
All morning
We watched her feed
A palm print smudged between
Poised as if to grasp from air
At any time this little life
Suspended there
In rattling atoms
Beyond the glass
I could not wipe it away
Though I longed to see clearer
This moment
I feared she’d flee
And we would too that feeling
Of wings beating
So fast our eyes
Focused in could not see
Anything at all
Beyond her
All of our life this hope
To have one thing so much the rest just vanishes
That night I dreamt we drank sugar water
And kissed again for the first time
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The following day at the trailhead
An old woman pointed upward in a clearing
As we walked by at two butterflies
“They used to be everywhere,” she said
But you never see them anymore.”
We stopped to watch
You didn’t know them
But I did
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The Everlasting Arms
04:56
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All at once
It came back to me
And then I thought more
And I think it was only a small piece
Sunk into the front seat
Turning the wheel over and over
Driving hard into pink rain
Falling sick into the arms
Of a love locked away in time
If I walked through the door
Into what I would think would be
The everlasting arms
Would they reach out for me
Would she fall to her knees and scream
Or will I have to be dead to be
That kind of loved again
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