watch out
i said
too late
always
half second
eon
looking back
i am coming out
of my own corpse my
shedding images hung
trapped/wire dangled/pinned
to the instant
worm-self
of moments cast off
burst through simultaneous
doomed
like all of us
repetition 
but
watch out
knife edge glint razor
watch it
mirror dome sky shatter
hey watch
fluid seep perforation
hold catch moment overlay
my eyes i am here and can feel 
skin impression vague
on tongue taste
sadness bitter
numb
watch
you stand next to me at the wall
you stand across from
you stand over me i
you i sit next to 
you i feel you i
you press against
smile
twist jackknife
unmoored
hands heavy transparent
all moments in an instant
watch
you fall against steel bars
you fall on a
you fall into the
you fall
hands join intertwine
i can see it out
there can see you
chain strung
tesseral fold expose
overcome
autogenesis
worn marks overdub
both dead forever
forever alive
same choice
same drive
same half-there lack
echo forward/back
meaning assigned
after the fact

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Morgan Ekern (She/they)
Morgan is a trans woman living in the PNW with her fiancé. She is a translator and likes to ride bikes.