~ ~ #Poem I need to lie
~ main post here ~ https://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/poem-i-need-to-lie/
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I need to lie
on my belly
ear to the ground
left
right
crick this crunchy neck
beaten
on shoulders
by sun
This was, I recall,
a key component
of my religious practice
before agnostic tenets
locked my muscles
into
eternal
steel