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Boarding With Burns

  • Dec 31, 2025
  • 1 min read

When I first boarded my plan home to Massachusetts 13 days ago,


I had a burn on my right middle finger.


I’d gotten it a week prior from my oven door, and in the Idaho dry air


it refused to heal.


Today, when I boarded my plane back to Idaho,


in the Massachusetts moisture,


the burn on my right middle finger had almost healed


visible, scarred, and sore to the touch,

but


almost healed.


I suppose this isn’t a poem about my finger, is it?


 
 
 

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lifeline pt. 2

 

it is now at 5:25 on a monday evening 

that i realize what has kept me here 

i am surviving off of dead poets & living ones

their souls live by keeping mine alive

i am here because 

one stanza 

one sentence 

one word 

found my breath 

worth taking 

 

each one a compression on my chest saying 

just one more day 

 

poets never die

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