There is a flaring penumbra that illuminates
the edges of the day I handed you some leaves
& you were willing to bleed in order to incorporate them
into your body while we stood together in cold
we fought off by pushing our two bodies
together though those two bodies remained
two bodies all the rest of that day, & that night,
& are two separate bodies still, though the leaves
running through our veins are the same leaves
collected that season we bled for each other.
Nate Pritts is the author of three full-length books of poems - The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon Books, 2010), Honorary Astronaut (Ghost Road Press, 2008) & Sensational Spectacular (BlazeVOX, 2007). He works online with gifted students through Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. The founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N, find him online at http://www.natepritts.com
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