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inside her hand like slick nylon glove probing flagella prickling green clouds the white receding and pulling me into yellow blue pressing eyes to the front against intangible membrane gripping remembered grooves in standing and settling shoulders leaning into ankles above lithe body above porous scalp with plastic panel

extending into sleeved arms with hands just like my hands held in front smooth clear closed opening blue 

in this body I can feel the empty full of tomorrow today now  

 against weeping skin clammy hand almost tingling hot like mint leaves steeping remember the hand on its handle raised to chapped lips blowing cold breath against chipped porcelain heirloom 

remember sterile stirrups under fluorescent light bulbs blooming in april showers clearing sinus pressure cooker steamed potato vodka burning soft palette bedframe cradles found mattress firm tofu pressed and pleated slacks off on switch blade sharper image 

remember my rib out in left field remember my spine unzipped remember twisting apart eruciform  

remember traveled darkness long waves of becoming sleep static her hand in my hand  

a great dome of unfolds above I am strapped to a vertical bed hooked to long crystalline tubes iridescent fluid pumps into us feels clean   

cold IV sparkling I remember my trajectory the surface of tau ceti e on Earth submerged in cryoprotectant with diodes affixed to my temples I wonder if this is my coffin  

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