Tattered breath flows out of me
Duvet and sheet sag silently
And yet, you, still.
Reminded unforgivingly
Of the things I cannot be
And which, I will.

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To fall is to be drawn to that which is beneath you. To fall is a condition, not an event.

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Thursday, 15 July 1847
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The humid air of the cape, which had overly embraced us to-day, began off the coast to consider greater ambitions. It would seek us out to-night for wet kisses and sudden discharges of electric energy. I feared for Ophelie in her barn loft, but reminded myself that the barn animals have always been safe there, and she would be as well.

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