Chapter 20 of 28

Ex Nihilo

These Gilded Words161 words~1 min read

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She forms letters and sentences from

dead air, uses their contained notes to

give life to my rotting organs, repairing

my failing heart with sword lilies and

healing the open wounds of my tired lungs with bleeding rose mallows whose strong pomegranate scent I smell with every exhale

Words dance from her lips with a pillow

like lilt, satiny syllables and amicable

assonance that navigate through the

labyrinth in my ears and plant themselves in the soil of my head, soon roots dig past my head, racing down my throat to steal the source of my voice

Slowly my humanity dies, her voice holds it in a vice grip while nature springs forth transforming me into their kin, legs become windy, gnarly branches, eyes morphing into banberries, veins fragile makeup encroached by soft petals that scratch my insides, my sun is her eyes, my water is her words, and by her grace do live

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