Breath paradise

Isabel Neal

Raise the bolt of wind-wet cherries.

Raise the sighing pennant.

Look how air folds any text; look at any skin underneath.

With your fingers you must knot the little habit, the bruise between words.

Now a colander whistles with light.

Believing everything you have carried and erected a doorframe.

Lean there; pause with an ear in each room.

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