Poem, Language, Fire, Sanctity of Tongues, Death

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Skin Thieves
February 12, 2023

they say to me over the fire
your native tongue
should be burned from you head

I say to them in licking fire
burn this if you can
when they’ve smoldered

down to nothing, my tongue remains
spoken in heart’s fast forge
six words more than times before

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