Laura Dame

Composition

Laura Dame

Demolished: the world and all its parts except for just two & just this: sizzling delight—all that’s left

The air in pools, humid with soft conclusions The light swimming quietly across skin still reverberating with touch These spells, too:

The smiles that fall like stained glassed windows painting a sinner’s face That strike like sandpaper against a waste-bin heart That memorize easy like a sweet sort of trauma

Yes, yes— press the symphony in between the pages construct a legacy that wails with saturation points

This is spring sunshine on winter skin morning dew shining straight through until dusk sugary sweat birthing itself with laughter no time for a stanza break cause it’s also desperate little bolts from the blue a private shattering of glass that whistles like happy clouds and the reckoning boil of a rising sun

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and it’s the kiss and the kiss and the kiss and this co-created world blessing itself against strewn mundanities in a brand new edition of bliss

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