viscose garnet flow
antlers scratching

THUMP THUMP

dendrites to dendrites,
to document, to excoriate,
create, pick apart, and
then pick it all up,
take a stand.

songs drummed from
some cavern i go, my salt mine — to remember,
tend embers.
smudge it all out,
start again.

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Caris Uşoară is a disabled artist, scholar, and emerging poet. She lives, creates, and rests on ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Dakota homelands (Dakota County, MN). These are her first published poems.