To Wake

And stay

underwater photography of school of fish

Unless you pushed us
from that amniotic round
of insular growth,
we could not live––
to unknow
its whispered secret,
to seek it out among
the throbbing body
of the rest of us.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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