paralysis
is such a strong word
to begin with
it could be itself
allowing me to turn
elsewhere - elucidate
some other indiscretion
birds have told me
chorusing on wind
that shakes the trees -
but there is none,
the afternoon lain flat,
impregnable
as the impossibility
of second sentences
today, a time like this
gone on unspoken for
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