“A Life-Giving IMessage Thread” – by Alex Cox

A life-giving iMessage thread

breathes an abundance of 

care,

healing, 

friendship

into truly hollow shells 

formed by 

layers of unresolved trauma.

Daily resignations of 

nature, poetry,

quitting, beginning, boundaries. 

Affirmations of 

goodness, 

pleasure, 

skin on bodies. 

Revealing 

secrets, dreams, 

art, and tattoos. 

Hearts woven, rooted, 

with an abundance of origins 

like the kudzu surrounding 

the dense forest floor. 

For now, we hold the stories we tell each other, 

Take them in our arms, 

Carry the burdens, 

and hold doors for our queens.

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