sister come lie down

by Katherine Denemark

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your eyes are red
sister, come lie down.
thin out the shell
you live in.

it’s the same thing
you tell them: what are
you pushing for?
who has gone there & come back
with a promise for you?

tell me something instead.
tell me what you have felt
with your own skin,
if it’s the same reaching out
and being reached
that is in me, the same space
of air spread out like the sea.