Salt trails on my skin, your fingers following them
Diving into your eyes, ocean deep, sand grains in my teeth

I’m grinding

Burning pine trees, cicadas singing
the mountainside is changing
Orange flames are eating the remains

of the day

Orange peel under my nails, the sweet juice touches my lips
Your lips on my neck

Sweet words said under your breath

We’re breathing still
Ashes in the windowsill

Ash trails on your skin, my fingers following them
The wall paint is melting, these four walls and all they contain
Gone, is gone

Burning cities, cicadas silent
Everything is dying

Dust, what’s left of us

Ashes

Ashes to ashes
Ashes to ashes

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