I breathe on the pressed glass of the century and it fogs with names I never learned to say.
Threads in the dark pull taut, then slacken—aurora loosening its stitch over my wrists.
Somewhere a small quake ticks like a watch inside a wall, and the wall listens back.
The bowl of tide tilts; salt grows teeth; light tastes like warm metal and old honey.
A smile forms in mercury, dissolves into scanlines, returns as a rumor of heat.
I hold the sheet to the window—ghosts choose their bodies in the time it takes to blink.
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