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  57   iconoclast     every  time  you  breathe  the  dragon   wings  stretch  gossamer  your  inhale   sweat  simpers  along  tattooed  skin     shocked  whispers  warm  the  air  we  hear   cinnamon  once  made  you  wonder   can  we  live  reaching  toward  the  trees   mother  painted  your  room  lilac   praying  the  stone  gods  might  hold  you   still  stream  soaked  fields  beseeched  you  home   your  picnic  remains  uneaten     fight  you  always  told  me  skyward   the  road  will  give  you  all  you  need   chuckling  we  wander  stars  away   while  you  make  our  stark  arrangements   be  careful  slight  roses  call  you   skillfully  you  wrestle  those  clouds   we  escape  among  the  tundra     these  galley  winds  rest  wildly  through  me   scarred  arms  point  the  direction  you  ran   pitiful  dogs  drawn  upon  thunder   scattered  sings  that  stylus  again   too  stung  streaked  fingers  wring  the  mists   your  journey  etched  within  these  eyes     mistakes  their  sheen  bright  beyond  us   divination  leads  me  ahead