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Wearing Thin
Have you felt like this
before? Like a root or tuber
stuck in earth, waiting
when really you wished to
build a ladder to the moon—
I'm imagining the scent of pine
or cedar hewn by hand
each rung placed carefully in its notch
a wooden ascension rising from
this damned ground we
cannot flee
no escape velocity
no spaceship
not even a tiny step stool reach
to get us any closer
how our paper moon dreams
might as well be spun
out of thin air.
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{inspired by the painting 'Ladder to the Moon' by Georgia O'Keeffe
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