she knows not how to let go of the air in her words
she knows not how much to blow into that balloon
how to twist and fold it, tie it twice, stretch its pain
to make that shape she feels in her wordy mouth,
the twin to the bubble in her mind, the ropy, jelly-baby
idea that skirmishes through her teeth and past her lips
into that invisible chute, from her pencil and into the paper
she cannot see the wood for the trees sometimes
but she can see through the walls and the woolly cloaks
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parallaxis
Poetryparallax /ˈpærəˌlæks/ noun 1. an apparent change in the position of an object resulting from a change in position of the observer 2. an appar...
