• 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.

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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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