dazzling

in all form of the girl
unbending but pliant at the wrists (especially
bruise cuffs black indigo green sickly yellow
but delicate face never marred (slender features told tales
of blue blood and princesses on high
tower trapped
tresses golden with sunlight dew

but gentle (gently just miserably
only mediocre uniform consistency throughout
too soft when speaking of lust of love of greed
greedy greedy girl
choking on more than she could swallow

crippled deaf blind justice
and muted misery never mingled too well at cocktail occasions
annotation made by the lesser
a splendid clock turner
with hands that reached too far up skirts of dusk enraptured stargazers

revelation (relevant to impertinence and impossibility
dreams never die (but dreamers tend to become martyrs
lucid shining faith retrospectively
cold silver brutal to touch burning ichorous (icarus
slick rivers of hurt easily mistaken for blood vessels breaking underneath
velvet (yes it was velvet

walls of barbed wire meaningless to girl
scratching peeling razor bolts through leniency of frail flesh
but nerve endings shot
done she without hurt and above this subsidiary earth
transcendence upon feathers she wields in wax-covered wings
sun too bright to see through lashes
clouds
she tries and touches (succeeds

gleaming trail of footprints in sand washed away with ocean waves
rolling and seething like distant roar
a death

they he
salvation is redemption is
girl smiling
a

somewhere in the tried and true
expanse of sky

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A/N: Why, hello, stream of consciousness. I didn't expect to see you today.