• I • Take care how you let me bleed. You never know which drop of me will change the world. • II • when I am in your hand, know you are safe. allow my ink to become anchor, holding you still to the page, to the world, so that even as your mind sonders out about the starry evers, you, your body, remain tethered to this obscenely human thing we call a story.
The is the July 2023 installment of the 11 Months, 11 Readings series, which features a new poem each month inspired by an Oreanam Oracle card that is drawn by the author on the first day of each month.
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