Kimberly Alidio

to say your land vanished into thinness scrap under your feet

when the name feels the same in the mouth who is the most hysterical person

to say I was never meant to the origin moment do you remember laughing

be about poetry's originating in childhood trauma when the first American boot

hit the ground in a cloud of dust maybe before that you're killing me
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reenact reincarnate the earthquake

on the long return to your bed

iamb tendril threading fretted fingers strummed purr crest into soft pang

landing buzz stomach pit's nervy light radius

compass me

snaking infinite under ink

kin planar prisms of eyelids

bloomed lip landscape plaid

under brim look at me ancestral

hollows invaded millennia

dwell binding curtains closed eyes

now intimate idioms
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