If you stretch your arms out open wide and stretch
Feel the bones cracking as they grow see the trees, will their billowing majesty
Your chest cavity opens wide, WIDE slanted skies no longer bind you
Powdered love rips out of plastic colors race through the air, WATCH
Our hearts, can anything contain them?
STRETCH, and feel the ink released out of joints plumes of smoke bursting from tree bark
Fibers, RIP them apart so you can see their fading edges in the sunlight
You dissolve into the natural world they will breathe you in and they will never know
Such a soft universe on our wing-tips!
A deep exhale
blankets the darkening sky
As we land
On flat ground, the earth under us worn down
And soft enough to entrench our feet
We are lying on the graves of our unstretched bodies,
Our clothes scattered through treetops,
And in knotted holes
They will find lost linen strips
While we sleep under ever growing sequoias
一a life’s worth of stretching in one final day
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