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HAM
do you know where the safest place lies?
in the trees?
where they shift with worry?
wide eyes seizing toward the center ground?
the safest place lies within the rotten trunk of the father
if you can make it
past the poison leaves that brush against you in passing
whispers their usual haunts
or past the curling clawed branches
grabbing at your heart
slashing through your clothes
holding tight as you struggle against his grasp till you go limp
or past his scratchy bark
scraping away at your porcelain skin
only if you get past his charcoal heart
you are the safest inside
from the rotten father
lying deep
where he can no longer tear you down
you are safest inside the thing you fear
safe inside the belly of the beast
— forest of fathers
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