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Holding Steady Now
In memory of Toby Russell-Winter

with fingers poised, you hold attention to
inside
eggs & seeds tubular sewn with daily socket
lowing
drips and swirls and curtains for us all left
balanced
precarious worlds handled in gestures ask
you
of the child that centres a febrile enfold in
love
a ganesh frontier of muscular atrophy, amuck
cornered
diaphragmic bleeds but contained am I and
your
speaks that excavation bares of the upturned
witness
that we are to each body other
to me
have been you