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Time Together

Sarah Scarcliff

Good people

making the home about them still,

rock and rumble and I am free

here, I am cherished apart

as I stack brick and sling mortar for the

structure of our goodness

in the belly of it we curl together and spy

fireworks blister into space and time

slows for us to twist the hair around our fingers

and pluck dust from each other’s eyelashes,

it slows, we do these things because we must,

because it’s love, because we’re good.