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haptic psalm

creature’s hand twixt flicker

t’ward her tiny breast pea light

fuse its knuckles fuzzed

its eyes sticky on her breast

heart unfixed by syrup cement

stick fast binding fuse transfixed

haptic psalm

slight silver tips of fingers

extremities tiny milk ducts

areola chestnut latex imprint

gravelly super abrasion dirt

in the darker skin around the wound

swooning hoping air departs transfixed

mystic’s odour

spread liquid or light

vaseline on the lens

substance under the pits

groin glands perspire bacterial

break down rust colour pubes

exocrine sebaceous wax milk sweat

sweat sweat visions smell below

mystic’s odour

cataclysmic droplets salty

salty tuc milka pocari pores

coiled in the palm spirally scored

pooling in the spill sniffed finger

bits bacon fried with this creature’s

hands hyperhidrosis sweet sweat

sweat sweat foresight’s scented glow

destine

coaxing the orbital path

of the moon to swing muscle

into an attracting force under

the influence of some creature‘s

hands at the crux of a sweet

beast‘s cross-shaped asterism

identify faint pattern navigate

sleet bitterness the clearing prevails

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