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Pearl

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Limbs-of-Osiris

Published: Jun 14, 2012

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Literature Text

I dive for pearls of dissonance
when the surface of things is too damn
flat and placid;

too many things knocking me into
Christmas stocking holes, stuffed
deep and warm where
the light gets dimmer.
Too many voices planing the peaks of me,
sanding me down until I shine
and glimmer gemlike and
polished.

I want peaks to scale
and troughs to navigate;
want fat and gristle
to chew and my own grit-strewn
trail to stumble along;
I want to smart and bristle,
flicking opinion from my skin
like dew off a nasturtium,
and punch holes in blank pages
like bullets.

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