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Free Verse Poetry

Untangling Water

We are not wise, and not very often
kind. And much can never be redeemed.
Still, life has some possibility left. ~Mary Oliver

Our fingers push ㅤand push, and push
at recounting our truth
Most stop before
redemption
Something wanting
to be something else
Language ㅤ(honeyed, hoisted liquid)
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