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The Rain Gauge

Your words
trickled in my ears, filling me,
inching like a rain gauge
from the feet up,

Legs
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Loins
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Guts
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Heart
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Head, till I was so
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Full

they started leaking
from my eyes.

First published in Goldfish
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