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---kaleb
the dance, for awhile.
---kaleb

i anticipate
blacks and blues and bruises,
near misses and occasional jabbs to the jaw,
everyone dancing around me, with dance shoes, with glares, with fists,
but with you in my corner,
gentle, nodding, knowing, waiting, healing,
i'll avoid the knock-out-blow,
the knock-out-blow.


)Kaleb