liberated lines :: amplify :: day two.

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upon waking
i look in the mirror
and therein i see
the bones of a young scots, 
blood and marrow
forever flow in my bones. 

out of seeking
came a time of
breaking
battering
bruising. 
all this hidden
in my then-life bones. 

and then, 
now. 
that long stretch of asphalt
whereupon we drove away
from sweetness and sorrow, 
i prayed. 
"give me a bird."
lifeless and weightless, 
still warm and intact, 
held against heart and ribs, 
feathers and bones became one. 

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