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Sarah Jeanne Peters

 

 

precipice

 

spoiling sun toyed with horizon

glancing, drawing away

a millisecond moved forward, rewinds

 

fireflies weave a slow

luminous net

over the moment,

leeching your current.

 

I call to you

look up!

 

you’re busy

counting

the missing

spiders of the palisade

 

yr fear, foresight

swerves, deflects

 

sudden darkness

I plummet

 

dumb

to ancient warning

 

move away

move away