Tripping on a Spiral Staircase

‘Tripping On a Spiral Staircase’

And so she presses down her Hail Marys                                              Against the inner lining of his heart and soul                                              She flicks her anxious habits back to school                                                And curls up inside the belly of the breeze.                                              Some sour reason, I’ll bawl to plead forgiveness                                          Like the face of shame on the verge of giggles                                               For the faded facts of enraptured fingers –                                                  Gaze out the window, seek out your limitations                                             In sweet dreams of untinged conspiracy                                                     Whilst wildfires skim the cream off the ocean                                            And all eyes ascend alike as apt magnets                                                          To the flesh of scattered starlight, and to me.

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