Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Scalded July 30, 2025

  

I get hot in this heat and it's not from the weather, a simmering inside me that wakes me in the dead of night, a need to relieve it, yet not brave enough to engage, holding on to it, the way I might grip a stone, feeling the tremble through me like an earthquake, and still, it doesn’t subside, I simply get hotter and feel my fingers scald, unable to resist the stroke of it, coming regardless of my need to resist. I wake to the heat, boiling over like an overheated cup of coffee, spilling over onto my fingers, here, in the night and morning, scalded inside and out.


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