This missingness
is a sabre-worm,
feasting on my heart-fruit,
and I imagine
by tomorrow it will have eaten
my heart all up
and chewed its way down
through my ribs
to devour the butterflies there
and sleep,
blood-drunk, heavy and keening,
in the hollow
where the fluttering should be.
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