March 2, 2026

Blood
reveals what the body hides,
stitches up and binds behind
marble white wrappings, builds
reflexive with so many reps, push
days and pull days, bear and bull
days, to pare and cull and find ways
to legitimize and ameliorate
all the evil acts that stack
like vertebrae inside this spineless husk
that seeks our hesitant allegiance,
pledges to weary us, tire
our aching backs and burdened
shoulders, ask more
of our parched hands, let
them bleed. Let them
flood.

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love notes
a ritual to start the week