they enter the world naked, struggling
into the avalanche of the different colours of light
the various textures of air
the drowning notes of breathing and sea
the lack of heartbeat
they wave arms like antennae, feet like pennants
their skins are super-charged with the anticipation
of earth and all its family of grit, moss, snail-slime
these are the newborn
that carry the thunderous freight
of a world’s longing to continue
they enter the world naked
and leave it with perhaps a nightdress
and a hippocampus drawing the curtain down
on 80 years of films they’ve been telling themselves
were real
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sally
that is so strikingly beautiful, thankyou char