Shadow tastes of metal this morning, a breath thinned to a crescent on my tongue.
Silver tremors write rings in a quiet bowl, and I count them like birthdays I forgot to keep.
A drawer shivers open by itself; inside, light folds and waits for permission to break.
Holographic skins peel, laugh, re-stick—the joke sticks to my fingers like sugar and static.
Kept perfumes exhale their old names; the room blushes, then bites down to stop the spill.
I lean into the lamp’s low tide, where amber turns to ice, and the ice remembers fire.
Somewhere beneath the floor, a patient god yawns, and the air learns how to hold its breath.
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