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(my real image)

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by Katharine Grace

it's hazy here,
a science fiction landscape.
pockmarked, bumpy,
full of ruts.
moonwalkers surface,
treading carefully in marshmallow boots.


now there's white,
a row of vaporous wings.
one after another.
lifting, rising off the screen,
their flight hindered,
bodiless and headless.


a snake emerges next,
precarious with strength.
stretching upwards.
unseen prey beyond its reach,
its skin like children's blocks,
stacked and wooden.


But wait...


There it is.
The Protrusion.
finally exposed, naked to the eye,
ballsy.
jarring and jostling for attention.
hot searing pain, it communicates.
out of place in this nether world.


how do I begin to put it back?
where do I start?
this film injures me.
the future stretches long.
my fear begins to dance,
a spastic jig behind my tired eyes.


p.s. My truth, will it set me free?