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Listening to the voiceless vowels of your heart; the swoosh and rush and squeeze

How different it sounds to all the other hearts my ear has searched for in hollowed chests that rise and sink like delicate birds dipping into still water for fish; I imagine the flutter of their wings much like the sounds of your heart

It stuns me, this heart of yours that can love me by crowding its chambers and pushing them empty again

Pushing empty to reach this island

Sucking in to break this gleaming surface

It stuns me to think that it speaks to me like this, as if I could understand the whisperings of its tender bruised walls

Beat, beat, beat and paddle the shallow waters that separate us

Burn your bridges and find your kin

In a chest much like yours